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William Maxwell
"Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep."
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Source : William Maxwell (2013). “All the Days and Nights: The Collected Stories”, p.59, Vintage
William Maxwell
#Sunset Quotes
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#Light Quotes
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“You not nothing til you got something, then everybody love ya. Pops told me that”
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“The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.”
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“Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.”
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“You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is. It's on the box. And even if I don't, if it's a 5,000-piece puzzle of the 'Mona Lisa', it's not like I put the last piece in and go, 'I had no idea it's the 'Mona Lisa'!'”
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“There's nothing more special than talking in your community, and using your celebrity to uplift people and help them.”
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“Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was.”
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“the struggle for the right to become politicians in itself made women into politicians.”
Source : Ray Strachey, Eleanor Florence Rathbone (1936). “Our freedom and its results”
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“But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it.”
