"Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters."

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Source : Carson McCullers (1998). “Clock Without Hands”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Carson McCullers

#Morning Quotes #Sunday Quotes #Musical Quotes

“As to whether Marcos is gay: Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal,â€¦ a Jew in Germany, a Gypsy in Poland, a Mohawk in Quebec, a pacifist in Bosnia, a single woman on the Metro at 10pm, a peasant without land, a gang member in the slums, an unemployed worker, an unhappy student and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains.”

Source : "'Marcos is Gay'". www.greenleft.org.au. November 05, 1997.
“You couldn't find nobody deader, not if you'd sarched for a week. Why, door nails, and Julius Caesar, and things o' that description, would ha' been lively compared with your poor ma when I see her. Lively! that's what they'd ha' been.”
“IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.”

Source : Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”
“I think every actor tries to put a little bit of themselves into each character, and I think if you watch very closely, every actor has a bit of himself in every role whether they want to admit it or not.”

Source : Source: www.ign.com
“It's frightening to admit but if I lay off the lin it'a amazing how my love handles deplete. But is life without gin worth living?”
“For every good art critic there may be ten great artists.”
“Why is it better to love than be loved? It is surer.”
“I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.”

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