Eleanor Lerman quotes
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“This is what life does. It lets you walk up to the store to buy breakfast and the paper, on a stiff knee. It lets you choose the way you have your eggs, your coffee. Then it sits a fisherman down beside you at the counter who says, Last night, the channel was full of starfish. And you wonder, is this a message, finally, or just another day?”
-- Eleanor LermanSource : Eleanor Lerman (2005). “Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds”
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“Memory, faith, and the natural world as both witness to the cycle of human life and healer to a questioning heart are at the core of this lovely and lyrical collection of poems. The weather changes, people come and go from cities and towns, babies are born, grow up and depart from their parents’ arms, but still, the countryside and its rituals sustain the people and creatures who know how to read the signs of the seasons. In these pages, Laura Grace Weldon shares those signs with us; her poems are the fruit of a wonderful harvest.”
-- Eleanor Lerman
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“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”
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“I love Prospect Park-watching fireflies at night and going to the bandshell for free music.”
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“A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.”
Source : Angela Carter (1997). “Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings”, Vintage
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