"In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen."

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Source : Steven Millhauser (2008). “Dangerous Laughter”, p.62, Vintage

Steven Millhauser

#Summer Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Long Quotes

“I love film and TV, the medium of them, just because it's such a smaller screen. It's much more precise. Ideally, I'd like to do maybe a film a year of some sort and use that to work more in the theatre because theatre really is my first love.”

Source : "PBOL'S Brief Encounter with 2002 Tony Award Nominee Shuler Hensley". Interview with Robert Simonson, www.playbill.com. May 15, 2002.
“New York is full of creative people, not only in fashion.”
“[...] to judge from the Internet postings that people have sent me, probably most of what you learned [about me] was nonsense.”
“Personally I give us . . . one chance of three.”
“It is very deplorable that North Korea still does not uphold human rights, which are universal values.”
“An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money.”
“Invariably something happens at a U.S. Open where the golf course gets out of control one day, they have one pin that's out of control. It always seems to happen. But they've gotten better about the height of the rough.”
“Before becoming a Muslim, a Hindu, a Sikh or a Christian, let's become a Human first.”

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