"My heart feels not so much in my chest as in my hands. I am carrying it along swiftly, as though I have become the messenger for what is going on inside me."

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Source : "Foster" by Claire Keegan, www.newyorker.com. February 15, 2010.

Claire Keegan

#Heart Quotes #Hands Quotes #Messengers Quotes

“It is utterly soothing to fly fish for trout. All other considerations or worries drift away and you couldn't keep them close if you wanted. Perhaps it's standing thigh deep in a river with the water passing at the exact but varying speed of life. You easily recognize this mortality and it dissipates into the landscape.”

Source : Jim Harrison (2007). “True North”, p.157, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I'm from Indiana, the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.”
“How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which Prometheus brought writing to man from the gods. But then I remind myself that...we should not be too fastidious about where great ideas come from. Ultimately, they all come from a wrinkled organ that at its healthiest has the color and consistency of toothpaste, and in the end only withers and dies.”
“Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Whether it's an orgy or a cocktail party, I know how to do it.”
“Statistics are just people with the tears wiped off.”
“I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in.”
“Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.”

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