"Conversation is the wall we build between ourselves and other people, too often with tired words like used and broken bottles which, catching the sunlight as they lie embedded in the wall, are mistaken for jewels."

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Source : Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”

Janet Frame

#Wall Quotes #Lying Quotes #Tired Quotes

“For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.”
“My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles.”
“When you are in a jackal environment, never give them the power to submit or rebel. We want to teach this to children very early: Never lose track that you are always free to choose. Don't allow institutions to determine what you do.”
“No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.”
“Debbie Reynolds is as wistful as an iron foundry.”
“Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. "Is this yours?" she asked "probably" said Paddy "she burns everything else"”
“I went to lose a jolly, Hour on the trolley, And lost my heart instead...”

Source : "Song: The Trolley Song". Performed in the musical film "Meet Me in St. Louis" by Judy Garland, November 22, 1944.
“I think most artists would agree, it's one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that's loving it, it's another thing to add cameras, but it's a really cool trade off to be on television.”

Source : Interview with Author Griffin, infinityhall.wordpress.com. February 23, 2014.

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