"I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains."

-- Anna Neagle

#Brother Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Father Quotes

“Good poems do a lot of things at once. Often, by doing so, they encourage us to acknowledge mixed and incompatible feelings. Good poems, like good works of history, resist monocausal explanations for anything. There's not one reason why I am angry or excited or hopeful, when I feel those things. And there's not one reason why President Obama won two elections. And there's not one reason why Donald Trump won the most recent presidential election.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“China tennis - we're getting bigger and bigger.”
“I hate weddings,' she says. 'They make me feel so unmarried. Actually, even brushing my teeth makes me feel unmarried.”

Source : Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.153, Penguin
“I don't know what my expectations are. It's like the word 'potential.' Those two words don't mean a whole lot to me. We can't please everybody. Certainly, we have to please ourselves first.”
“We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”
“Personally, I have been very impressed by the slow food movement. It is about celebrating the culture of food, of sharing the extraordinary knowledge, developed over millennia, of the traditions involved with quality food production, of the sheer joy and pleasure of consuming food together. Especially within the context of family life, this has to be one of the highest forms of cultural activity.”
“Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.”

Source : Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.145, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
“One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning for the future or counting the cost, produced dreadful disabilities and bankruptcies later.”

Source : Edmund Wilson (1997). “The Edmund Wilson Reader”

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