"Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass blindingly in a quick series of chords, open-shut, together-apart; and then a single melancholy week may seem like a year's pining, one long unfolding note."

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Source : Julia Glass (2003). “Three Junes”, Vintage

Julia Glass

#Years Quotes #Play Quotes #Long Quotes

“They leave things behind sometimes, the guests. A bottle of scent. A crumpled handkerchief. A pearl button that fell off a dress and rolled under a bed. And sometimes they leave other sorts of things. Things you can't see. A sigh trapped in a corner. Memories tangled in the curtains. A sob fluttering against the windowpane like a bird that flew in and can't get back out. I can feel these things. They dart and crouch and whisper.”
“Many of our troubles are due to the fact that our people turn to politicians for everything.”
“I am being stalked across the Web. And why is this happening? Pretty simple: It's huge business.”
“Who are we, this government or this country, to redefine the term marriage that has meant one man and one woman across cultures, across ages, across geographical barriers since before state and religion themselves?”
“This crisis started probably due to the freedom they gave to the banks. First President [Ronald] Reagan and then President [Bill] Clinton. So, for [Barack] Obama it is extremely difficult to change now, to find a way to organize this banking system [differently].”

Source : Source: progressive.org
“Dead men always have the last laugh. They win. They're dead. You can't hurt their feelings anymore.”
“the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.”
“They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.”

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