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Julien Gracq
"Blood had long since ceased to beat from one end to the other, but one could sense, from passages marked with fresher traces of wheels and hooves, that once the meaning and even the very idea of a long journey was lost, sleep had not descended over it in one fell swoop: it had continued to steal a march here and there, in a discontinuous way, and over short distances, like a laborer who feels his cart jolt on a section of Roman road that crosses his field." --
Julien Gracq
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“According to one account of the New York City schools during the 1950s: The teacher could not technically hit the child, but the old crones found ways of skirting the rules. The push-probe-pull method was popular, in which the teacher would not hit you, but would poke you with her gnarled, witch-like fingers and grab your face like a taffy pull until you screamed. ... The pull-and-choke was also a favorite. It was executed by pulling the compulsory necktie up like a noose, until the errant boy's face turned the school colors.”
“The last time you're doing something - knowing you're doing it for the last - makes it even more alive than the first.”
Source : Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.224, Open Road Media
“A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.”
“The NEA is a terrorist organization.”
“How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.”
“I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "science fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.”
“To understand possible means to understand impossible.”
“Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.