"The word "miss" is so wistful. As is the word "wistful," for that matter. They both have sighs embedded in them, that "iss" sound. Which also sounds like if."

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Source : Joan Wickersham (2008). “The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Joan Wickersham

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“Being a defense hawk and a budget hawk are not mutually exclusive.”
“The power of hanging Pawns is based precisely in their Mobility, in their Ability to create acute situations instantly.”
“You don't learn knife skills at cooking school, because they give you only six onions and no matter how hard you focus on those six onions there are only six, and you're not going to learn as much as when you cut up a hundred.”

Source : Bill Buford (2013). “Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-maker and Apprentice to a Butcher in Tuscany”, p.67, Random House
“I'm interested in stories. I think I'm a bit of a pathfinder.”
“I can't change you and you can't change me, but together we can work to change the world.”
“I may be getting old, but not foolish.”
“A good sweat, with the blood punding through my body, makes me feel alive, revitalized. I gain a sense of mastery and assurance.Â I feel good about myself.Â Then I can feel good about others.”
“I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot.”

Source : Ingmar Bergman (1990). “Images: my life in film”, Arcade Publishing

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