"Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom."

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Source : Charles Frazier (2011). “Nightwoods: A Novel”, p.34, Random House

Charles Frazier

#Book Quotes #Healing Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Without the support of my mom, Marlene, I would not be the person I am. She has been my main supporter throughout my career, and I owe everything to her. This is a small way that we, as players, can pay tribute to her and other hockey moms, and it is all for a good cause.”
“I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.”
“...For grace may only be found briefly, and always in the midst of madness.”
“In the midst of all these innumerable forms of a common protest and universal ill-ease there has grown up one definite body of doctrine whose adherents are called Communists and who desired the total subversion of what had been, hitherto unquestioned among civilized European men, the general doctrines of property and individual freedom.”
“People trust me. I sell sincerity.”
“I used it in a shot where Richard Burton goes down the hall to get a gun in a closet. And I wanted to get some excitement, and the hallway was too narrow for the dollies that they had at that time. So it was quite useful.”
“The welfare state has bred a generation of obnoxious, drug-addled criminals and ne'er-do-wells. It has also, incidentally, burdened what was once the world's biggest, most dynamic economy with the dead weight of an obstructive and vastly expensive state machine.”
“America means opportunity, freedom, power.”

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