"I never get used to it, the unknowable mystery of a person so suddenly, totally closed, snapped shut like a half-read novel."

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Source : Linda Barnes (2015). “Steel Guitar”, p.67, Open Road Media

Linda Barnes

#Half Quotes #Mystery Quotes #Used Quotes

“Babe Ruth was the home-run king of his time, but also the strikeout king.”
“They would glue the wig to the front of my forehead, and after a while it would give me a headache.”
“I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.”
“I don't think I'd ever get any better as a poet if I didn't push myself, very deliberately, to grow. My best poems surprise me, as they should, but I fight them at every turn, possibly just because I'm stubborn.”
“I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.”

Source : "Down from Cold Mountain". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2003.
“I think America understands that energy security is a very important part of our national security. But if we are going to address energy security in a meaningful way going forward, we need to do it in a new manner. We cannot just be doing the same old thing.”
“Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing.”
“The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.”

Source : Foreword for "Discovering the Brain" by Sandra Ackerman, p. iii, 1992.

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