"But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like."

-- Catherynne M. Valente

#Children Quotes #Dark Quotes #Cold Quotes

“Where you find obesity, you'll find poverty. It's a reflection of the South's struggle to raise its standard of living.”
“Jim Pagliaroni joined the club tonight and is going to be a welcome addition. He was describing a girl that one of the ballplayers had been out with and said, â€œIt's hard to say exactly what she looked like. She was kind of Joe Torre with tits.â€ This joke can only be explained with a picture of Joe Torre. But I'm not sure any exist. He dissolves camera lenses.”
“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.”
“How often do we use other people as screens upon which to project our obsessions? Our discontents, dreams, desires, and fears? Well, I always thought, often enough that its a wonder the whole waking world isn't simply viewed as an endless improvised film. One with as many screenwriters, producers, and directors as there are actors”

Source : Bradford Morrow (2011). “The Diviner's Tale”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I keep thinking I should get a phone, because everyone's got one and it becomes increasingly difficult to exist in a society where everyone else has moved ahead and you haven't.”
“straightway like a bell Came low and clear The slow, sad murmur of the distant seas”
“Once you do a piece on the stage, you become that poem or you become that piece. That's really who you are. I think that's why some artists have stage names, you know? I don't have a stage name, it's pretty much just me.”
“You create a fearful culture where you spend a lot of time looking at where you screwed up,”

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