"Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought, had fled unfingered."

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Mervyn Peake

#Noon Quotes #Silent Quotes #Thunder Quotes

“You might make a lot of money, but it's very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better - and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself.”
“The hardest work in the world is being out of work.”
“Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.”
“I have known sorrow - therefore I May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily Than those who never sorrowed upon earth And know not laughter's worth. I have known laughter - therefore I May sorrow with you far more tenderly Than those who never guess how sad a thing Seems merriment to one heart's suffering.”

Source : "Knowledge". Poem by Theodosia Garrison. "Something to Live By". Book by Dorothea S. Kopplin, 2016.
“Wild Goose exemplifies how the Evangelical Left translates 'social justice' into Big Government and pacifism.”
“Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.”

Source : Hedda Hopper (1952). “From under my hat”
“In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.”
“He was in the right place at the right time, but he might have been elsewhere on a different afternoon.”

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