"... there are four women in every manâ€™s heart. The Maid in the Meadow, the Demon Lover, the Stouthearted Woman, the Tall and Quiet Woman."

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Source : Annie Proulx (2008). “The Shipping News: A Novel”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

Annie Proulx

#Heart Quotes #Men Quotes #Maids Quotes

“I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.”
“Johannesburg is weird, because half of it is like Los Angeles. It feels like just wealthy parts of L.A. But half of it is severe slummy, something like Rio De Janiero or something. So it's kind of weird, because it's both happening at the same time.”
“That famous writerâ€™s block is a myth as far as Iâ€™m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing. They donâ€™t want to do it. They have become writers out of reasons of ambition. It must be a great strain to them to make marks on a page when they really have nothing much to say, and donâ€™t enjoy doing it. Iâ€™m not so sure what I have to say but I certainly enjoy making sentences.”
“Because of my personal history, my professional skills and my business achievements, I am a man nobody can expect to compare himself with.”
“I don't want to be immortal through my works. I want to be immortal by not dying.”
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the patience not to strangle my mother-in-law, chop her into little pieces, and dump them down a sewer.”

Source : "Serenity Prayer". Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr, www.beliefnet.com. 1951.
“We are dealing with a multidimensional paraphysical phenomenon which is largely indigenous to planet earth.”
“As far as possible, I want nothing more than to don my training gi and teach Karate.”

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