"The hours spool out like a ribbon I can't find the end of."

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Source : Brenna Yovanoff (2013). “Paper Valentine”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

Brenna Yovanoff

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“The Jews who already have been ousted were put out because they were morally and politically unfit to safeguard German interests.”

Source : "The Riot at Christie Pits" by Cyril Levitt, William Shaffir, (p. 61), 1987.
“If you always hire people who are bigger than you are, we shall become a company of giants”
“You have the nicest window, you know? None of the others can even compete. ItÂ´s not flashy like the others, or bleary â€“ your window gives of this nice, quiet light.”
“Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art.”
“I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.”
“In every war at some point in time, you do sit down and negotiate.”
“I was always attracted to the type of cinema hero as an adolescent growing up in Ireland. Robert Mitchum springs to mind. Later on, it was Steve McQueen to a certain extent and Charles Bronson. They're these types of grizzled characters who had one foot on the side of law and order and the other foot in the bad guy's camp.”
“There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely”

Source : Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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