"Iâ€™ve written this poem before but always through a window, never through an open door."

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Andrea Gibson

#Doors Quotes #Window Quotes

“I'm human -- all I do is try to do my job. When I don't do it, the way it happened today, it's out of my control. He put the ball in play and it happened to find a hole. I wish I could take it back, but I can't. You move on.”
“I got a fan letter on the back of a prison menu. And I remember thinking, 'Well, they get pie. It's not so bad. They get pie on the weekends.' I want to say blueberry and also a Boston cream pie. Not so bad.”
“You don't believe in Nature anymore. It's too isolated from you. You've abstracted it. It's so messy and damaged and sad. Your eyes glaze as you travel life's highway past all the crushed animals and the Big Gulp cups.”

Source : Joy Williams (2015). “Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals”, p.1, Rowman & Littlefield
“Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones - THAT kind of love.”
“When the invocation descends into the heart, if there is darkness within, it illuminates it; and if there is already light, the invocation increases the light and intensifies it.”
“Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.”
“In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh; since, being a writer, he is one who has studied and perfected this particular mode of personal incarnation, very likely to the detriment of any other. I should like as a matter of curiosity to see and hear for a moment the men whose works I admire; but I should hardly expect to find further intercourse particularly profitable.”
“I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references.”

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