"The unhappiest moment I could never tell you. All our fights blend into each other and are in fact re-enactments of the same fight, in which we punish each other--I with words, Hugh with silence--for being each other. We never needed any more than that."

-- Alice Munro

#Fighting Quotes #Silence Quotes #Facts Quotes

“You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.”
“Singing live is my favorite. When people sing along to your songs, the circle is complete.”
“The last player to score a hatrick in a cup final was Stan Mortenson. He even had a final named after him, the Matthews final”
“It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves”
“I don't think about being male or female, I just behave naturally. I think in terms of excellence in science, not gender.”
“Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.”

Source : Grace Paley (2014). “The Collected Stories”, p.334, Macmillan
“I want to do everything right now! This very minute. I am impatient, but yes I have goals. To be a real well-respected actress whom people know they can rely on to do a good job... whether they like me as a person or not!”
“I was never nervous. That's not me, ... Nervousness, scariness, that's not even in our vocabulary.”

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