"Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom."

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Source : "The Art of Fiction". The Paris Review No. 130, Spring 1994.

#Garden Quotes #Strange Quotes #Mystery Quotes

“When I sleepwalk into your room, and pick you up, and hold you up in the moonlight, you cling to me hard, as if clinging could save us. I think you think I will never die, I think I exude to you the permanence of smoke or stars, even as my broken arms heal themselves around you.”

Source : Galway Kinnell (1973). “The Book of Nightmares”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“A Composition on the Piano”
“Heredity is nothing but stored environment.”
“You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.”
“It has been my experience that the people I judge most harshly are the ones in whom I recognize some part of myself.”
“I'm down with the whole patron thing. Bring back the Medicis. Maybe, I'm not just a lefty, but a royalist.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.”
“I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and survive. You can be in an earthquake, fire, volcanic eruption, tornado, what you will-and survive. But if your plane crashes, you do not survive. And I say the heck with it.”

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