"Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath."

-- Theodore Roethke

#Giving Up Quotes #Breathing Quotes #Giving Quotes

“During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you go home, you have to pretend to be the person you are at home.”

Source : "Making waves" by Mark Morris, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2000.
“We are in the presence of a recruiting drive systematically and deliberately undertaken by American business, by American universities, and to a lesser extent, American government, often initiated by talent scouts specially sent over here to buy British brains and preempt them for service of the U.S.A. ... I look forward earnestly to the day when some reform of the American system of school education enables them to produce their own scientists so that, in an aimiable free trade of talent, there may be adequate interchange between our country and theirs, and not a one-way traffic.”
“No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.”
“The logic of a madman is a sane man's confusion.”
“I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.”
“I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does.”
“I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.”

Source : William Trevor (1999). “Death in Summer”, p.145, Penguin
“I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.”

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