"Build your house with the stones they hurled at you"

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Erri De Luca

#House Quotes #Stones Quotes

“Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean again. A second that is you, without memory or experience, the animal warm and waking into a brand new world. There is the sun dissolving the dark, and light as clear as music, filling the room where you sleep and the other rooms behind your eyes.”
“[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.”

Source : Mary Jo Putney (2000). “The burning point”
“I started getting emails from Anna Wintour inviting me to her dinners. It was just surreal.”
“The man that will nocht quhen he may Sall haif nocht quhen he wald.”

Source : c.1460 'Robene and Makeyne', l.91-2.
“The true state of the union lies in your heart, and in your home.”

Source : "Republican Response To State Of The Union: Read Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ Speech", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2014.
“Words without action mean nothing. Iâ€™ll show you.”
“I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.”
“Like a kite Cut from the string, Lightly the soul of my youth Has taken flight.”

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