"Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much or too little. You can have love that parches, love that defeats. You can have love measured out in the wrong proportions. It's like your sunlight and water - the wrong kind of love is just as likely to stifle hope as it is to nourish it."

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Source : Kevin Brockmeier (2011). “The Brief History of the Dead”, p.67, Hachette UK

Kevin Brockmeier

#Love Is Quotes #Water Quotes #Too Much Quotes

“The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.”
“I want to thank everyone for the overwhelming love and support for my mother. She is resting comfortably and is with our family. We ask that you continue to keep her in your thoughts and prayers.”
“Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work.”
“Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.”
“But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay; Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows; And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: "Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.”
“The Beatles first appeared on our show on February 9, 1964, and I have never seen any scenes to compare with the bedlam that was occasioned by their debut. Broadway was jammed with people for almost eight blocks. They screamed, yelled, and stopped traffic. It was indescribable ... There has never been anything like it in show business, and the New York City police were very happy it didn't - and wouldn't - happen again.”
“Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.”
“Go to where the silence is and say something.”

Source : Quoted in Columbia Journalism Review, Mar./Apr. 1994

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