"Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me."

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Ray Bradbury

#Silence Quotes #Said Quotes #Perfume Quotes

“But my relief that David Auburn's Proof is less about its ballyhooed higher mathematics than the fragility of life and love was matched by my delight in his fine and tender play. (...) Proof surprises us with its aliveness and intelligent modesty, and we have not met these characters before.”
“Ray Charles has always been a big part of my life.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.”
“In the alluvial sweep of the land, I thought I could see the past and the present and the future all at once, as though time were not sequential in nature but took place without a beginning or an end, like a flash of green light rippling outward from the center of creation, not unlike a dream inside the mind of God.”

Source : James Lee Burke (2011). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.303, Simon and Schuster
“Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.”

Source : J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“While I'm here on this planet, I really want to create art and do creative things.”
“When asked her view of cosmetic surgery, Carmen Dell'Orefice replies, 'â€That's a very polite way of asking me, I'm sure, â€˜Have you had a facelift?' Well, if you had the ceiling falling down in your living room, would you not go and have a repair?”

Source : "‘About Face’: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ Film Focuses On Aging Supermodels" by Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2012.
“Love is the smallest part of gallantry.”

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