"A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent and sweet that once you bite through the flannel, it brings tears to your eyes."

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Source : Melissa Fay Greene (2015). “Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction”, p.22, Da Capo Press

Melissa Fay Greene

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“You can't run forever. There's only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky. And you can't go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.”
“My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend on other people are often in hiding from themselves. Two and a quarter million people live in the City of Light: you will see many of them and you will pass them in the street, but when you see Notre Dame after dark and walk home and perhaps stop to have a drink in the Marais, you can feel that the only thing that is missing from your experience is the common dependence on someone to distract your attention. You are living without it: you are on vacation.”

Source : "Party of one" by Andrew O'Hagan, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. May 09, 2013.
“A good reputation is better than fame.”
“I'm not Tom Cruise. Very few British actors are. If you look at the body of work I've done it's pretty obvious I'm not going to make a 'Mission: Impossible.'”
“Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive”
“Donâ€™t make a sound Iâ€™ll be your voice You donâ€™t need to be afraid Anymore Iâ€™ll shine a light out in the dark Guide you here no matter how far”
“The fashion industry now has a direct relationship with its customers. Thanks to things like Twitter, ideas can be shared and circulated.”
“The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.”

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