"Against the sustained tick of a watch, fiction takes the measure of a life, a season, a look exchanged, the turning point, desire as brief as a dream, the grief and terror that after childhood we cease to express."

-- Mavis Gallant

#Dream Quotes #Grief Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“After spending all of her girlhood fervently wishing she could run away from homeâ€” sheâ€™d actually done it.”
“I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am quite happy to take a cut. You've got to, if you want to work and continue working.”
“This is one big problem with working remotely: no one believes you have a job at all.”
“While we appreciate our ancestry as Americans or even our ethnic ancestry and our color of skin, we believe that our real citizenship is in Heaven.”
“I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.”
“Rich people focus on what they want, while poor people focus on what they don't want.”
“The rapid deterioration of education has been recognized as a national problem for the past several years. Consequently, American businesses must meet the immediate challenge of poorly-educated people in today's workforce by strengthening employee training programs.”

Source : Public power, Volume 48. American Public Power Association, 1990.

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