"Graham Greene famously said that all writers need a chip of ice in their heart; Cusk can come across as the most beautiful ice palace of stalactites and stalagmites, and some people find her company, albeit by proxy, about as inviting as a long weekend in a walk-in frigidaire."

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Source : "Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation by Rachel Cusk - review" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

Julie Burchill

#Beautiful Quotes #Heart Quotes #Weekend Quotes

“As soon as you have good mechanical technology, you can make things like backhoes that can dig holes in the road. But of course a backhoe can knock your head off. But you don't want to not develop a backhoe because it can knock your head off, that would be regarded as silly.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“What about the future?" "We'll talk about the future when it gets here.”

Source : Arturo Pérez-Reverte (2002). “The Queen of the South”
“As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished.”
“My first introduction to fashion probably came through television: I was obsessed with Elsa Klensch, who used to cover fashion for CNN.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“I don't pay attention to him. I don't even ignore him.”
“All I know of morality I learned from football”
“I had a soft spot for crazy people.”
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

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