In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities.
The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.
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Nicholas Sparks
I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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Jonathan Safran Foer
If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.
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Andrew Davidson
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
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Arthur C. Clarke
Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go.
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Lana Del Rey
More Quotes By Cynthia Ozick
If a novel's salient aim is virtue, I want to throw it against the wall.
Get thee to the novel! - the novel, that word-woven submarine, piloted by intimation and intuition, that will dive you to the deeps of the heart's maelstrom.
Lie, illusion, deception, she said--was that it truly, the universal language we all speak?
A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the mud, uncles' and cousins' books, tablets and capsules and powders..and then one day you find yourself leaning here, writing on that round glass...
The ground was scorched, the streets teemed with refugees, and these Americans were playing at fleeing! As if they had something to resent, to despise, to scorn, to run away from! As if they weren't the lords of the earth.
