"Houses, like faces, hide all kinds of memories."

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Source : Ron Franscell (2000). “Angel Fire”, Berkley

Ron Franscell

#Memories Quotes #House Quotes #Faces Quotes

“I get all dressed up with that Marianne Faithfull face, and the next thing I know, I'm blurting out things that I shouldn't, trying to get attention when, really, I've got everybody's attention already.”
“Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.”
“The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine. "In return for the odor of my jasmine, I'd like all the odor of your roses." "I have no roses; all the flowers in my garden are dead." "Well then, I'll take the withered petals and the yellow leaves and the waters of the fountain." the wind left. And I wept. And I said to myself: "What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?”

Source : Antonio Machado, “The Wind, One BrILLIant Day”
“All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.”
“I can't think of anything specific growing up that pointed me toward NASA at all. I was interested in the Moon landings just about the same as everyone else of my generation. But I never really thought about being an astronaut or working in space myself.”
“Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.”
“I don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in.”
“Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.”

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