"Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all had come to visit her like admonitory relatives, and all had slipped away without a trace, without a sound, and now, once again, she was waiting."

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Source : EVAN S. CONNELL, JR. (1959). “MRS. BRIDGE”

Evan S. Connell

#Birthday Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Sound Quotes

“All this piling up of one technology on top of another-railroad on steamboat, interstate highway on railroad, hydroelectric dam on watermill-had reduced the Mississippi from a wonder of nature to this sluggish canal on the wrong side of the tracks.”
“I would tell players to relax and never think about what's at stake. Just think about the basketball game. If you start to think about who is going to win the championship, you've lost your focus.”
“Boys suck. Even when they have perfect blue eyes and ridiculously cool trucks. Maybe especially then.”
“To hold a pen is to be at war.”
“When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.”
“The reason I often say, for me, photography is analogous to poetry, for my kind of work more so than journalism, is because it's so open to interpretation. And I'm very happy having different interpretations of it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Iceland is fascinating; really an amazing place to visit, and great for a film to go there.”
“People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.”

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