Barbara Ascher quotes
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“Grief is like the wind. When it's blowing hard, you adjust your sails and run before it. If it blows too hard, you stay in the harbor, close the hatches and don't take calls. When it's gentle, you go sailing, have a picnic, take a swim.”
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“Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self.”
-- Barbara AscherSource : Barbara Lazear Ascher (1987). “Playing after dark”, Harpercollins
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“A red brick Presbyterian church... captured by kudzu vines as surely as a butterfly in a net.”
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“From beginning to end this is a wet and blood smeared voyage, this begetting and birthing and moving away.”
-- Barbara AscherSource : Barbara Lazear Ascher (1987). “Playing after dark”, Harpercollins
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“The hot, moist smell of babies fresh from naps.”
-- Barbara AscherSource : Barbara Lazear Ascher (1987). “Playing after dark”, HarperCollins
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“Siblings may be ambivalent about their relationships in life, but in death the power of their bond strangles the surviving heart. Death reminds us that we are part of the same river, the same flow from the same source, rushing towards the same destiny. Were you close? Yes, but we didn't know it then.”
-- Barbara Ascher
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Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.
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“The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.”
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“See how time makes all grief decay.”
Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.218