"A day without a dark cloud. Almost a happy day. There were three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days like that in his stretch. From the first clang of the rail to the last clang of the rail. Three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days. The three extra days were for leap years."

-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Dark Quotes #Clouds Quotes #Years Quotes

“I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something”
“The pressure is always there... I just have got to go out there and enjoy my moment and do my best.”
“I think there is one smashing rule: never face the facts.”
“Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.”
“To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.”
“This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries.”
“When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.”
“With this recitation of paraphernalia and detritus, O'Brien manages to encapsulate the experience of an army and of a particular war, of a mined and booby-trapped landscape, of cold nights and hot days, of soaking monsoons and rice paddies, and of the possibility of being shot, like Ted Lavender, suddenly and out of nowhere: not only in the middle of a sentence but in the midst of a subordinate clause.”

Source : "Reading Like a Writer". Book by Francine Prose, 2006.

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