"The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: he looks rather dashing but the fact is that he has been through a maiming experience."

-- Jo Coudert

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“If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.”
“Every project starts with a story.”

Source : Interview with Alison McFadden, everydayshortcuts.com. January 7, 2015.
“What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that are understood without the need for any help from elite writers or thinkers.”
“Peace will not wipe out the memory of the massacres it has committed...And on this last day of the century, I promise Israel that it will see more suicide attacks, for we will write our history with blood,”
“The truth is, everything ultimately comes down to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters. Does or does not a character address moral being in a universal and important way? If it does, then it's literature.”
“If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.”

Source : Mary Webb (1928). “Precious Bane”
“Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.”

Source : Van Wyck Brooks (1944). “Literature in New England: The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865. New England: Indian Summer, 1865-1915”, New York Garden City [1944]
“Yellow, mellow, ripened days, Sheltered in a golden coating; O'er the dreamy, listless haze, White and dainty cloudlets floating; Winking at the blushing trees, And the sombre, furrowed fallow; Smiling at the airy ease, Of the southward flying swallow Sweet and smiling are thy ways, Beauteous, golden Autumn days.”

Source : Will Carleton (2001). “Farm Ballads”, p.99, Applewood Books

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