Quotes by Author

Homesick

2017-07-02 / John Cheever / couldn't be, countries, homesick, longed to be, never been / Leave a Comment

I’ve been homesick for countries I’ve never been, and longed to be where I couldn’t be. ~ John Cheever

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Days in this life

2017-07-02 / Charles Dickens / days, death, life, worth / Leave a Comment

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. ~ Charles Dickens

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The Milky Way

2017-07-10 / Yasunari Kawabata / back, caught, fell, flowed, footing, head, inside, milky way, roar / Leave a Comment

As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar. ~ Yasunari Kawabata

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Let the rain kiss you

2017-07-01 / Langston Hughes / beat, drops, head, kiss, liquid, lullaby, rain, silver, sing / Leave a Comment

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. ~ Langston Hughes

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The Old Man

2017-07-01 / Mark Twain / astonished, boy, father, hardly, ignorant, learned, old man, seven, stand, years / Leave a Comment

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. ~ Mark Twain

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