"I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers."

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Source : Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.40, Atlantic Monthly Press

Leif Enger

#Air Quotes #Gold Quotes #October Quotes

“[Larry Kramer] got really mad at me once. The precipitating incident was a speech at Yale by the first President Bush's Secretary of Heath and Human Services, Louis Sullivan, against which Larry led a demonstration. He got the demonstrators to drown out Sullivan's speech, which wasn't allowed.”
“First, when I was 12, I saw a Spanish girl jumping rope. I never saw her face, but it was still the most beautiful sight I'd ever seen.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 20, 2002.
“Liberals have a new wish every time their latest wish is granted. Conservatives should make them spell out their principles and ideals. Instead of doing this, conservatives allow liberals to pursue incremental goals without revealing their ultimate destination. So, thanks to the negligence of their opponents, liberals control the terms of every debate by always demanding 'more' while never defining 'enough.' The predictable result is that they always get more, and it's never enough.”
“Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven. There are others: innocence, but that is for little children; penance, but we are afraid of it; generous endurance of trials of life, but when they come we weep and ask to be. The surest, easiest, shortest way is the Eucharist.”
“What's the big deal with France? How come everyone wants to go there? Let me tell you about France. Their music sucks. Their movies suck. Their berets suck. Their croissants are pretty good, but the place overall still sucks.My family went there once on the way to visit Dad's homeland family. EuroDisney. Need I say more?”
“God likes to listen favorably to the prayers of His faithful, particularly when they look at Christ's body”
“Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.”
“An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.”

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