"The Mississippi Delta is not always dark with rain. Some autumn mornings, the sun rises over Moon Lake, or Eagle, or Choctaw, or Blue, or Roebuck, all the wide, deep waters of the state, and when it does, its dawn is as rosy with promise and hope as any other."

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Source : Lewis Nordan (2003). “Wolf Whistle”, p.149, Algonquin Books

Lewis Nordan

#Morning Quotes #Rain Quotes #Autumn Quotes

“Food cannot take care of spiritual, psychological and emotional problems, but the feeling of being loved and cared for, the actual comfort of the beauty and flavour of food, the increase of blood sugar and physical well-being, help one to go on during the next hours better equipped to meet the problems (p. 124).”
“Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.”

Source : Bill Bradley (2009). “Life on the Run”, p.241, Transaction Publishers
“I don't put myself under pressure.”
“You try to tap into a memory and you close your eyes and it comes back. So I was doing this in the painting and then that became a practice of mine. Sometimes it was a cathartic situation, a way to meditate.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.”
“One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.”
“I like playing in other projects.”
“There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.”

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