"She'd read once that if you ran into a bear in the woods you should avoid eye contact and you shouldn't run away, but all she knew about wolves is that you should never tell them how to find your grandmother's house."

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Anne Ursu

#Running Quotes #Eye Quotes #Grandmother Quotes

“I don't keep a press agent because I think people need to have a break from you.”
“A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It's a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer. Furthermore, the writer is not there to see the reaction of the person he writes to, so there's a great unknown to the process that requires a leap of faith. The writer has to choose the right words to express his sentences, and then, once he has sealed the envelope, he has to place those thoughts in the hands of someone else, trusting that the feelings will be delivered, and that the recipient will understand the writer's intent. How childish to think that could be easy.”

Source : "Brava, Valentine: A Novel". Book by Adriana Trigiani, March 16, 2010.
“Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.”

Source : Sir Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life, in seven essays ... From the third London edition”, p.59
“Here, for a moment, we are joined.”

Source : Ron Silliman (1983). “ABC”
“The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.”

Source : Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.”
“We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we've been living in cities, we've become more and more stupid, not smarter. What made us survive all these hundreds of thousands of years is our spirituality; the link to our land.”

Source : "Sebastião Salgado in Siberia" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2012.
“I don't like museums; there's nothing to buy.”

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