"Most people have to talk so they won't hear."

--

Source : May Sarton (2014). “A Reckoning: A Novel”, p.127, Open Road Media

May Sarton

“I like romance, I like glamour and I like realism. I think that's a great combination.”
“I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.”
“People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.”
“I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else.”
“But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival.”
“Don't misinform your Doctor nor your Lawyer.”
“Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver.”
“neither poems nor prose just a length of rope just the wet earth -- that's the way home. neither vodka nor bread just bursts of rage just more new graves -- that's youth and that's love. neither sleep nor waking neither joy nor laughter just tears in the night -- so the rope, paper, knife.”

Source : Tadeusz Borowski, Larry Rafferty (1990). “Selected poems”

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