"There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall."

“The bluebird carries the sky on his back.”

“We're very aggressive speakers. I remember when I was with one of my roommates in New York - and she's Portuguese, too - and we were in an Apple store talking about a computer in Portuguese. Some guy comes up to us and goes, "Hey, hey! Peace, peace! Stop arguing." It's not arguing. This is really just how we talk.”

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“I learned also that the best way to keep out of trouble was by never complaining or asking for anything.”

“Once we squeeze all we can out of the United States, it can dry up and blow away.”

“It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it, but who cares if the writer is not whole; of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well.”

Source : Joy Williams (2015). “Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals”, p.177, Rowman & Littlefield

“Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them.”

“This is a day on which we pay our respects to those who have endured the unimaginable. This is an occasion for the world to speak up against the unspeakable. It is long overdue that a day be dedicated to remembering and supporting the many victims and survivors of torture around the world.”

“Praying is another way of singing.You plant in the tree the soul of lemons.You plant in the gardens the spirit of roses.”

Source : Dannie Abse (2001). “Goodbye, Twentieth Century: An Autobiography”, Vintage