"A brook can be a friend in a special way. It talks to you with splashy gurgles. It cools your toes and lets you sit quietly beside it when you don't feel like speaking."

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Source : Joan Walsh Anglund (1958). “A Friend is Someone who Likes You”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Joan Walsh Anglund

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“Angels are unsatisfiable in their longing to do by all means all manner of good unto all the creatures, ...especially the children of men.”
“We are capitalism made flesh.”

Source : "The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age". Book by Mark Kingwell, 2000.
“What really takes me back is when I'm walking around the Lower East Side, because we went to so many places [there] - the bakery, a mannequin store, all these factories with mice running around. That also is very visceral and takes me back. Pool halls, tattoo parlors, all kinds of stuff like that.”
“I love the Instamatic application on my I phone, it takes the coolest photos.”

Source : "Supermodel Carolyn Murphy on Travel Hits and Misses". Interview with Stacie Krajchir, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2010.
“There were so many things I have had to say sorry for that I wasnâ€™t sorry about.”
“A concave chest means that your diaphragm is sagging.”
“The first story I wrote was "Catface" which was later selected for The O. Henry Collection, so that gave me some confidence to try some more. Gathering these stories together was fun, but I realized when I read them that I have certain mental preoccupations and they keep recurring in my stories.”

Source : Source: www.bookbrowse.com
“You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.”

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