"Perhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead."

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Source : Alan Brennert (2009). “Honolulu”, p.393, Macmillan

Alan Brennert

#Moving Quotes #Needs Quotes #Looks Quotes

“This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard to make a living as a writer. At that point, I was more interested in fiction writing.”
“I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.”
“One young woman's tribute describes unwrapping her cadaver's hands and being brought up short by the realization that the nails were painted pink. "The pictures in the anatomy atlas did not show nail polish", she wrote. "Did you choose the color? Did you think that I would see it? I wanted to tell you about the inside of your hands. I want you to know you are always there when I see patients. When I palpate an abdomen, yours are the organs I imagine. When I listen to a heart, I recall holding your heart.”
“Art is difficult. Its not entertainment.”

Source : "Anselm Kiefer: 'Art is difficult, it's not entertainment'" by Alex Needham, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2011.
“Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.”

Source : Arthur Schnitzler (1982). “Plays and Stories: Arthur Schnitzler”, p.112, A&C Black
“You are perfect for a female." "Not where I come from." "Then they're using the wrong standard.”
“Lo! while we are gazing, in swifter haste Stream down the snows, till the air is white, As, myriads by myriads madly chased, They fling themselves from their shadowy height. The fair, frail creatures of middle sky, What speed they make, with their grave so nigh; Flake after flake, To lie in the dark and silent lake!”
“I'm in the booth and first of all, I'm from Germany and I had never heard a gospel in my life.”

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