"Her father was the face of her morning and night, he was everything, so saturating Havaaâ€™s world that she could no more describe him than she could the air."

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Source : Anthony Marra (2013). “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena”, p.16, Random House

Anthony Marra

#Morning Quotes #Father Quotes #Night Quotes

“When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.”
“I play because I know I can play the game, so it's their decision whether or not they want to keep me or they wanna trade me. Whatever decision they make, I will understand it.”
“I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing.”
“What thou intendest to do, speak not of before thou doest it.”
“You can see the meaning of the statement that "Literature is a living art" most easily and clearly, perhaps, by contrasting Science and Art at their two extremes - say Pure Mathematics and Acting. Science as a rule deals with things, Art with man's thought and emotion about things.”
“The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.”
“Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them.”
“He [Democritus] is probably best known for two of the most scientifically intuitive quotes ever uttered by an ancient: 'Nothing exists except atoms and space, everything else is opinion'.....”

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