"and they shook hands, hit each other on the shoulder, then there was forty feet of distance between them and nothing to do but drive away in opposite directions. Within a mile Ennis felt like someone was pulling his guts out hand over hand a yard at a time. He stopped at the side of the road and, in the whirling new snow, tried to puke but nothing came up. He felt about as bad as he ever had and it took a long time for the feeling to wear off."

-- Annie Proulx

#Distance Quotes #Hands Quotes #Opposites Quotes

“To Cam surprise, she was smiling up at him steadily, her eyes midnight. His expression turned quizzical. "What's so amusÂing?" Amelia toyed with a button on his coat. "I was just thinking . . . tonight those two old hens will probably go to their beds, cold and alone." An impish grin curved her lips. "Whereas I will be with a wicked, handsome Rom who will keep me warm all night.”
“On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.”
“When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist.”
“It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.”
“Nature is the art of God.”
“Fear of failure is the reason most often cited to explain why so many aspiring writers never realize their dreams. But I think itâ€™s that same fear of failure that absolutely invigorates those who do push through-that is, the fear of not being heard.”

Source : Betsy Lerner (2016). “The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers”, p.13, Pan Macmillan
“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”

Source : Jay Fields, Shane Harvie, Martin Fowler, Kent Beck (2009). “Refactoring: Ruby Edition”, p.36, Pearson Education
“When you act, it's better not to fake the emotion. It's better to find the emotion within yourself and your experiences, and see if you can bring that back to the surface, so that you can then literally hand it off to the character, and then let him run with it.”

Source : "Q+A: Jackie Earle Haley, Good-Natured Monster". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. May 10, 2012.

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