"He tried to imagine the sound of the color red."

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Source : Pete Hamill (2009). “Snow in August”, p.129, Hachette UK

Pete Hamill

#Color Quotes #Red Quotes #Sound Quotes

“Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything.”
“Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too - photographs that may be public or private, serious or funny, but that carry with them a reminder of community.”
“History--the product, not the raw material--is a bottle with a label. For many years now, the emphasis of historical discussion has been laid upon the label (its iconography, its target-group of customers) and upon the interesting problems of manufacturing bottle-glass. The contents, on the other hand, are tasted in a knowing, perfunctory way and then spat out again. Only amateurs swallow them.”
“Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.”

Source : "Bringing Free Market Choices to Education" by John Katzman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2013.
“There's so much more to tell about Africa than the usual stories about war, famine and disease.”
“I admire the ambition of the project, and the generosity of many of the lines.”
“What is the Balmain girl? Itâ€™s a woman who knows what she wants and is going to express it”
“Far too often, we fathers avoid the subject because it's so awkward. The subject I am referring to is: buying gifts for women. This is an area where many men do not have a clue. Exhibit A was my father, who was a very thoughtful man, but who once gave my mother, on their anniversary, the following token of his love, his commitment, and-yes-his passion for her: an electric blanket.”

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