"My father told me that some voices are so true they can be used as weapons, can maneuver the weather, change time. He said that a voice that powerful can walk away from the singer if it is shamed. After my father left us, I learned that some voices can deceive you. There is a top layer and there is a bottom, and they don't match."

-- Joy Harjo

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“It was a sad thing. I don't know how he learned that.”
“Silence is a strange thing to us who live: we desire it, we fear it, we worship it, we hate it. There is a divinity about cats, as long as they are silent: the silence of swans gives them an air of legend.”

Source : Keith Douglas (2014). “Alamein to Zem Zem”, p.18, Faber & Faber
“Before I accept a job, I always talk to folks about it. Why does he kill these 22 people? If they say, What difference does it make? I know we have nothing more to talk about. A character has to be three-dimensional.”
“It is weird. People will say, 'Oh my God, I love you.' And I'll say, 'Oh, that's so sweet. Thank you.' And the people who are walking around with me for the first time will say, 'I don't understand what happened. Somebody just told you they love you. I don't even understand what that means.'”

Source : "Q&A: Cheryl Hines on Suburgatory and Being 'Cheryl'". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. October 17, 2012.
“Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.”

Source : Thomas Mann (1934). “Joseph and His Brothers”, New York : A.A. Knopf
“Read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fighting, and I wonder how long the rest of us can count on being free.”
“The brave venture anything.”
“If you want to be a star, don't bother doing it because it ends up being very empty.”

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