"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 #Dark Quotes #Light Quotes

“You not nothing til you got something, then everybody love ya. Pops told me that”
“The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.”
“Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.”
“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'!'”
“There's nothing more special than talking in your community, and using your celebrity to uplift people and help them.”
“Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was.”
“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”
“But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it.”

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