"our love for the dead, like a floating iceberg, can only be measured by the depths of our resentments."

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Source : Rosario Ferré (1996). “Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories”, Plume Books

Rosario Ferre

#Depth Quotes #Floating Quotes #Our Love Quotes

“You know, I'd like to sit here and blame everybody else for my trouble. I just can't do that. I can't find it in myself to do it.”
“I know my choices will be creative so long as I follow my heart.”
“I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. May 26, 2008.
“I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.”
“Fortunately I am not the first person to tell you that you will never die. You simply lose your body. You will be the same except you won't have to worry about rent or mortgages or fashionable clothes. You will be released from sexual obsessions. You will not have drug addictions. You will not need alcohol. You will not have to worry about cellulite or cigarettes or cancer or AIDS or venereal disease. You will be free.”

Source : Cookie Mueller (1997). “Ask Dr. Mueller: The Writings of Cookie Mueller”, Serpent's Tail
“As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses. An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation. Justice is never advanced in the taking of a human life. Morality is never upheld by a legalized murder.”
“The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.”
“I think people have to be more aware of what the repercussions are of their actions.”

Source : "Rock For The Rising Sun". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2013.

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