"Funny how you can live a whole life waiting and not know it."

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Source : Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.215, Vintage

Peter Heller

#Waiting Quotes #Whole Life Quotes

“My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands.”

Source : Hermione Gingold (1958). “The world is square”
“I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.”
“What you risk reveals what you value.”
“In much the same way, motherhood has become the essential female experience, valued above all others: giving life is where it's at. Give birth in cities where accommodation is precarious, schools have surrendered the fight and children are subject to the most vicious mental assault through advertising, TV, internet, fizzy drink manufacturers and so on. Without children you will never be fulfilled as a woman, but bringing up kids in decent conditions is almost impossible.”
“It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.”
“I still try to keep my eyes open. I'm always on the lookout for antlion traps in sandy soil, monarch pupae near milkweed, skipper larvae in locust leaves. These things are utterly common, and I've not seen one”
“For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.”
“Whether you do a play in front of 100 people or a movie that one billion people see, you're still affecting people.”

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