"For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go."

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Source : George Washington Cable (1988). “The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life”, p.1, University of Georgia Press

George Washington Cable

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“Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.”
“I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.”

Source : "The Things We Carry: Crossing Borders with “A Time For Drunken Horses” director Bahman Gh". Interview with Erin Torneo, www.indiewire.com. October 25, 2000.
“Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”
“Pluck not the wayside flower; It is the traveler's dower.”

Source : William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”
“I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my cheek on the pillow and sigh for a long time. It seemed there would never be another book. It was all over, the book was dead. It lay in its bent cover by my hand. What was the use? Why bother dragging the weight of my small body down to dinner? Why move? Why breathe? The book had left me, and there was no reason to go on.”
“Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing . . . [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else.”
“You must play boldly to win.”
“There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.”

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