"The Revolutionary Hill Estates had not been designed to accommodate a tragedy. Even at night, as if on purpose, the development held no looming shadows and no gaunt silhouettes. It was invincibly cheerful, a toyland of white and pastel houses whose bright, uncurtained windows winked blandly through a dappling of green and yellow leaves â€¦ A man running down these streets in desperate grief was indecently out of place."

-- Richard Yates

#Running Quotes #Grief Quotes #Night Quotes

“Carlos Tevez is so rich that when he retires he'll never have to play football again”
“... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock.”
“When I was a little kid, I loved horror films. I always liked being scared.”
“I think it's really finding that belief in yourself, where you just have it no matter what's going on, no matter what anyone else says. I think that's the challenge, is to really have that belief in yourself.”
“The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor.”
“America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivable sin. Failure.”

Source : Evelyn Anthony (2015). “The Rendezvous”, p.46, Open Road Media
“What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind...The mind is raw, full of energy, alive and hungry. It does not think in the way we were brought up to think-well-mann ered, congenial.”
“Evil, be thou my good.”

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