"There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself."

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Source : John Gregory Brown (2001). “Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

John Gregory Brown

#Daughter Quotes #Running Quotes #Men Quotes

“I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.”
“What's the point of a spark of light if it stands alone? The key is, and will always be, synergy. Without it, each and every light being will forever feel broken, misplaced, and internally crippled.”
“Market forces do not make cities, they destroy them”
“A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.”
“I have a terrible wanderthirst; the very sight of a map makes me want to put on my hat and take an umbrella and start. I shall see before I die the palms and temples of the South.”

Source : Jean Webster (2004). “Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy”, p.86, Penguin
“Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.”

Source : William Cowper, “The Task: Book Vi. -- The Winter Walk At Noon”
“A whole generation of people that didn't know me from 'SNL' recognize me from 'Weeds' now. People recognize me once in a while and appreciate the work. It gets a little embarrassing but it's good. If you work as an accountant, you don't have people coming up to you in the streets saying, 'Hey, great job on tax statements!'”
“In fact, to me it's liberating to not think of identity as some organic property that we have to find and stick to, but actually something that is constructed, or that's imposed, that we can then counter by taking a different route and re-dressing it, and then re-dressing it again, and then re-dressing it again.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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