"Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you."

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Source : Reynolds Price (1987). “Kate Vaiden”

Reynolds Price

#Sunrise Quotes

“To sing is to love and affirm, to fly and to soar, to coast into the hearts of the people who listen to tell them that life is to live, that love is there, that nothing is a promise, but that beauty exists, and must be hunted for and found.”

Source : Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”
“The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it...”
“An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.”
“I'm happy with the way I look, but I'm not Hollywood beautiful.”
“The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.”

Source : Gregory Maguire (2009). “Mirror Mirror: A Novel”, p.2, Harper Collins
“Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?”

Source : Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.145, SUNY Press
“At some level it's still hard for me to admit that my father died. I can talk about it and around it, but those two words. 'He died.' What can that possibly mean? That I won't get to hear his voice again?”

Source : Jennifer Grant (2011). “Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant”, p.4, Knopf
“My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early. I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.”

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