"Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers."

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James Wolcott

#Children Quotes #People Quotes #Alcohol Quotes

“I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.”

Source : Eve Arnold (1995). “Eve Arnold: in retrospect”, Random House (UK)
“Perennials are the ones that grow like weeds, biennials are the ones that die this year instead of next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all.”
“Music, the knife without a hilt,”

Source : Dorothy Dunnett (1999). “Checkmate: The Lymond Chronicles Book Six”, p.454, Penguin UK
“It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.”
“But Harry . . . even if we had met and married three years ago, youâ€™d still say it wasnâ€™t enough time.â€ â€œYouâ€™re right. I canâ€™t think of a single day of my life that wouldnâ€™t have been improved with you in it.â€ â€œDarling,â€ she whispered, her fingertips coming up to stroke his jaw, â€œthatâ€™s lovely. Even more romantic than comparing me to watch parts.â€ Harry nipped at her finger. â€œAre you mocking me?â€ â€œNot at all,â€ Poppy said, smiling. â€œI know how you feel about gears and mechanisms.”
“Heredity proposes and development disposes.”
“Not all musicians believe in god but they all believe in Bach”
“Jeanne, I fell asleep among the paintings, where I could sit for many days worshipping your portrait. I fell in love with your portrait, Jeanne, because it will never change. I have such a fear of seeing you grow old, Jeanne, I fell in love with an unchanging you that will never be taken away from me. I was wishing you would die, so that no one could take you away from me, and I would love the painting of you as you would look eternally.”

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