"I suddenly recall the arpeggios of laughter lilting across the tender, springtime grass-gay-welling, far-floating, fluent, spontaneous, a bell-like feminine fluting, then suppressed; as though snuffed swiftly and irrevocably beneath the quiet solemnity of the vespered air now vibrant with somber chapel bells."

-- Ralph Ellison

#Laughter Quotes #Gay Quotes #Air Quotes

“I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.”
“Do you think that I am an old man? I could prove to this congregation that I am young; for I could find more girls who would choose me for a husband than can carry any of the young men.”
“Nobody in America who wants pot has any trouble getting it, so maybe that's why we aren't seeing support for legalization. People don't think it's necessary to legalize it, because it's so easy to get it.”
“If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it.”
“I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.”

Source : Christian Science Monitor, October 24, 1979.
“The scent of frying astronomers long ago ceased to ascend to Yahweh.”
“Give weather reports. It helps the reality of a scene if foghorns are blowing or kites are in the sky on a windy afternoon or the day's so hot wallpaper is peeling off the walls.”
“I think we live only through our dreams and our imagination.”

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