"The highest praise a writer can give another is to say he wishes he had written his book. I wish I had written Forty Words for Sorrow. Giles Blunt has a tremendous talent. If you miss Forty Words for Sorrow, you'll miss one of best novels of 2001."

-- Tony Hillerman

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“When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.”
“Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.”
“If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.”
“The moon is a loyal companion. It never leaves. Itâ€™s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day itâ€™s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.”
“The unwearable of high heels is self-evidently all around us, coming to a head at the average wedding reception, a uniformly high-heeled occasion. In our minds, we see it as a serene and elegant gathering of women in their finest, one of the big chances of the year to pretend you're at the Oscars, in your stilettos. In actuality of course, ... there are women staggering around in the unaccustomed vertical, foot-flesh spilling over tight, unkind satin.”
“Skills rest in your mind not in the props you make use of.”
“I have always intended to live forever; but not until now, to live now.”

Source : Galway Kinnell (2016). “Three Books”, p.214, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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