Amy Gerstler quotes
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“People hit the sauce in a big way all winter. Amidst blizzards they wrestle unsuccessfully with the dark comedy of their lives, laughter trapped in their frigid gizzards. Meanwhile, the mercury just plummets, like a migrating duck blasted out of the sky by some hunter in a cap with fur earflaps.”
-- Amy GerstlerSource : Amy Gerstler (2000). “Medicine”, p.75, Penguin
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“Love doesn't reside in the heart, anyway. Love resides in the liver along with jaundice.”
-- Amy GerstlerSource : Amy Gerstler (2000). “Medicine”, p.24, Penguin
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“Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic. Maybe a field of dracaena, or a vast stand of sugar pines—generous, gum-yielding trees—to fill our minds with vegetable wonder and keep dread at bay.”
-- Amy GerstlerSource : Amy Gerstler (2000). “Medicine”, p.21, Penguin
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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 147, 1895.
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Source : Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.
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Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.27, The New Press
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Source : Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2016). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.303, Penguin
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“There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.”
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