"People are usually pretty hungry after a funeral. I guess it's because we all realize that time is running out and we better eat all we can. Please don't mention that to my mother."

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Source : Peter Hedges (1999). “What's Eating Gilbert Grape”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

Peter Hedges

#Mother Quotes #Running Quotes #People Quotes

“It is true that the environment does have an influence but what has much greater effect on the artist is love or hatred.He uses his setting to express these things.”

Source : Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Roger Cole (1978). “Burning to speak: the life and art of Henri Gaudier Brzeska”
“It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.”
“I see wings dancing around me Beleive in your dreams.”
“Scottish Theatre's greatest success story of recent times.”
“War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.”
“I also think that I had great mechanics.”
“The world goes on, as stupid and brutal as tomorrow as it was today. And though I am shuddering with pain, and twisting with pain, and sobbing with pain, i laugh.Because I know now. I know the answer. I know the truth. Oh,dead man, you are dead wrong, I tell him.Can't you see? The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I [do not. I do not.]”

Source : Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.245, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Imagination is the only true thing in the world!”

Source : Sarah Orne Jewett (1911). “Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett”

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