George Washington Cable quotes

“For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go.”
-- George Washington Cable

Source : George Washington Cable (1988). “The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life”, p.1, University of Georgia Press

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“Did I say the book of nature is a catechism? Yes, But, after it answers the first question with "God," nothing but questions follow.”
-- George Washington Cable

Source : George Washington Cable (1991). “OLD CREOLE DAYS: A Story of Creole Life”, p.18, Pelican Publishing Company

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“Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver.”
-- George Washington Cable

Source : George Washington Cable (1988). “The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life”, p.1, University of Georgia Press

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“And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.”
-- George Washington Cable

Source : George Washington Cable (1988). “The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life”, p.9, University of Georgia Press

#Land Quotes #Silence Quotes #Mourning Quotes

“It was in the Theatre St. Philippe (they has laid a temporary floor over the parquette seats) in the city we now call New Orleans, in the month of September, and in the year 1803.”
-- George Washington Cable

Source : George Washington Cable (1988). “The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life”, p.1, University of Georgia Press

#New Orleans Quotes #Years Quotes #Cities Quotes

“When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, "I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.”

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“Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.”

“Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside of a bush in late summer, viewing it as a sign of the unexpected munificence of a divine creator, but we became modern when we gave up on awaiting sporadic gifts from above and sought to render any pleasing sensation immediately and repeatedly available.”

“Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.”

“This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.”

“Hey, bro...So there's like 7,000 paparazzi outside. Maybe two of you guys can roll over, and one of you can grab the Ferrari, and then we can just split? Thanks, bro.”

“Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:”

Source : Alexander Cockburn (1988). “Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era”, p.185, Verso

“If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.”

“President Obama is traveling around the country, proposing a stimulus bill that has already failed once. Instead of having an honest discussion about whether or not a plan that already failed once will fail again, the establishment would rather distract the American people with gossip.”

“Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.”