"Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?"

-- Vernon Duke

#New York Quotes #Autumn Quotes #Doe Quotes

“The joys of motherhood are not excessively apparent during the first few weeks of a baby's life.”
“I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to talk about anything else. Readers don't want to hear about anything else. They go gaga about love. If a lover in a story wins his true love, that's the end of the tale, even if World War III is about to begin, and the sky is black with flying saucers.”
“Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.”
“Boys need to learn the value of spiritual solitude. For the soul to grow, it needs those moments of no-stimulation, of wakeful peace. Because we adults don't usually practice enough solitudeâ€”because we are always 'doing' thingsâ€”we often neglect to teach our boys to find solitude”

Source : Michael Gurian (2006). “The Wonder of Boys”, p.202, Penguin
“My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions.”
“There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones generally don't say what I want them to say. And that's true of the persona in the poem who's lamenting this as a fact of a certain stage of life. But it's also true of me as me.”
“Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.”
“I generally circuit train and do Pilates.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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