"Sometimes you don't choose the material; the material chooses you."

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Source : "Author Q&A". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

James D. Houston

#Sometimes Quotes #Materials Quotes

“And I know that God made the heart the most fragile and resilient of all organs, that a lifetime of joy and pain might be encased in one mortal chamber.”

Source : Tosca Lee (2015). “Havah: A Novel”, p.6, Simon and Schuster
“I love Bill Clinton. I think we should make him king. I'm talking the red robe, the turkey leg - everything.”
“Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions. Open pans of maple sugar can have the surface ice removed regularly (each day) until a sugar concentrate remains. Salts in water, and alcohol in ferment liquors can be concentrated in the same way.”
“The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be.”
“When we were small, Rose and I used to play a game called connect the dots. I loved it. I loved drawing a line from dot number 1 to dot number 2 and so on. Most of all, I loved the moment when the chaotic sprinkle of dots resolved itself into a picture. That's what stories do. They connect the random dots of life into a picture. But it's all an illusion. Just try to connect the dots of life. You'll end up with a lunatic scribble.”

Source : Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.45, Penguin
“Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds.”

Source : Isaac BICKERSTAFFE (1825). “The Padlock, etc”, p.10
“And in her smile I see something more beautiful than the stars.”
“If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.”

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