Quotes
Authors
Margo Lanagan

"There is something about talking in the night, with the shreds of sleep around your ears, with the silences between one remark and another, the town dark and dreaming beyond your own walls. It draws the truth out of you, straight from its little dark pool down there, where usually you guard it so careful, and wave your hands over it and hum and haw to protect people's feelings, to protect your own . . . You can bring out the jaggedest feelings - if you are my wife and know how to state them calm - into the night quiet. They will float there for consideration, harming no one."

-- Margo Lanagan

#Dream Quotes #Wall Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“What I had mastered was fly-fishing Rule # 1: Remove all hooks from soft tissue under water, where near-freezing temperatures anesthetize exposed nerve endings and you can't hear your fellow anglers' hysterical laughter.”
“Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.”
“Movies are arguably the most influential, important medium in the world. They have a tremendous cultural impact. Because women are now making movies, then women's ideas, philosophy, point of view will seep into that culture. And that's never happened in history. Ever, ever, ever. We can't even see the impact of that yet.”
“Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors, I want burning, burning, burning.”
“Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.”
“Never leave well enough alone.”

Source : "Never Leave Well Enough Alone". Book by Raymond Loewy, 1951.
“Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases”

Source : Barbara Taylor Bradford (1993). “A Woman of Substance: Act of Will”
“When I read or hear of the mutual injuries of England and Ireland, I fancy it would have been a blessed thing had the sea never flowed between the two countries. Had they been all in one, surely there would have been more unity between them of interests and of feelings. But let us hope that days of peace and general enlightenment will arrive by ways past man's finding out.”

Source : Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.139

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