"It's true, isn't it, that each of us has two hearts? The secret heart, curled behind like a fist, living gnarled and shrunken beneath the plain, open one we use every day."

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Source : Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press

Carolyn Parkhurst

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“You have to keep surprising your audience.”

Source : "Crash, bang, wallop what a picture" by Sam Delaney, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2009.
“Love is the weapon which Omnipotence reserved to conquer rebel man when all the rest had failed. Reason he parries; fear he answers blow for blow; future interest he meets with present pleasure; but love, that sun against whose melting beams the winter cannot stand--that soft subliming slumber which wrestles down the giant, there is not one human being in a million, nor a thousand men in all earth's huge quintillion, whose clay heart is hardened against love.”
“My younger daughter told me recently that when she was a child she thought the typewriter was a toy that I went into my room and closed the door and played with.”

Source : William Maxwell, Barbara Burkhardt (2012). “Conversations with William Maxwell”, p.45, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.”
“Grace gives without the receiver realizing how great the gift really is.”

Source : Rebecca Manley Pippert (1999). “Out of the Saltshaker & into the World: Evangelism as a Way of Life”, IVP Books
“When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.”

Source : Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.270, University of Missouri Press
“From moment then to moment their desire Gained strength, and wisdom fled before love's fire; Passion engulfed them, and these lovers lay Entwined together till the break of day.”

Source : Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2016). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.87, Penguin
“Sometimes,' she said, 'it takes a woman to bring out the best in a man.”

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