"Prose is not to be read aloud but to oneself alone at night, and it is not quick as poetry but rather a gathering web of insinuations ... Prose should be a long intimacy between strangers with no direct appeal to what both may have known. It should slowly appeal to feelings unexpressed, it should in the end draw tears out of the stone ..."

-- Henry Green

#Night Quotes #Long Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him.”
“God said this is our land, land in which we flourish as people... we want our cattle to get fat on our land so that our children grow up in prosperity; and we do not want the fat removed to feed others.”

Source : Jomo Kenyatta's Speech in Nyeri, Kenya, July 26, 1952.
“I've sown all the oats I want to sow.”
“We hated the Giants. We just hated the uniform.”
“The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.'”
“I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.”
“Space is very unforgiving business”
“I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.”

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