"Biographers, the quick in pursuit of the dead, research, organize, fill in, contradict, and make in this way a sort of completed picture puzzle with all the scramble turned into a blue eye and the parts of the right leg fitted together."

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Source : Elizabeth Hardwick (1998). “Sight-readings: American Fictions”, Random House Incorporated

Elizabeth Hardwick

#Eye Quotes #Blue Quotes #Together Quotes

“If this day means anything, it means that you are now in the contingent of the responsible. You must be kind, yes, but you must also look beyond your own house. We're depending on you for your efforts and your vision. We are depending on your eye and your imagination to identify what wrongs exist and persist, and on your hands, your backs, your efforts, to right them.”
“Even as a child, I told my whole family how to improve their looks.”

Source : "Jil Sander: 'If I had the power I would ban leggings'". Interview with Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2011.
“Over-production is not possible in all branches of industry at once, but it is possible in some as compared to others.”
“If the rest of the world likes Americans only when we're dying, the rest of the world can go to hell.”
“For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else might be possible? Water may be older than light, diamonds crack in hot goat's blood, mountaintops give off cold fire, forests appear in mid-ocean, it may happen that a crab is caught with the shadow of a hand on its back, and that the wind be imprisoned in a bit of knotted string. And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.”

Source : "The Shipping News". Book by Annie Proulx, 1993.
“Ye have a watch; go your way, make it as sure as ye can.”
“Occasionally there are people who are not like me, and I forget that they're more introverted or shy, or just don't want to make a decision so quickly.”
“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.”

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