"I love planting bulbs. It is making promises with tomorrow, believing in next year and the future."

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Source : Jean Hersey (1964). “A Sense of Seasons”

Jean Hersey

#Believe Quotes #Years Quotes #Promise Quotes

“Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.”
“I try to keep away from being bigheaded. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their life. But there are several respected adult actors who were child actors that started very young. I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster. Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money.”
“Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.”
“How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell of a woman--a woman in constant pain because her children no longer live under her roof? Is it possible that a notion so pervasive is, in fact, just a myth?”
“The perfect life: to live in a world of peace in a lake district where the magistrate is good and honest, and to have an understanding wife and bright children.”
“You can't kill the truth.”
“I do believe that our climate is changing. I don't agree that all the changes are necessarily due solely to human activity.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“As for the multiple editions, in the case of a truly great writer - Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Proust, someone with a canon - there is often a "variorum" edition of the work that presents its variants. I think publishing most other writing that way would be impossible, economically, for publishers, and very ill-advised for authors.”

Source : "Ask the Author Live: Judith Thurman on Laura Ingalls Wilder". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. July 31, 2009.

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