Linda Gregg quotes
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“It was my dream Not its failure that damaged me”
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“So many want to be lifted by song and dancing, and this morning it is easy to understand. I write in the sound of chirping birds hidden in the almond trees, the almonds still green and thriving in the foliage.”
-- Linda GreggSource : Linda Gregg (1991). “Sacraments of Desire”, Graywolf Press
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“When death comes, we take off our clothes and gather everything we left behind: what is dark, broken, touched with shame. When Death demands we give an accounting, naked we present our lives in bundles. See how much these weigh, we tell him, refusing to deny what we have lived. Everything that is touched by light loves the light. We the stubborn-as-grass, we who reel at the taste of sap and want our spirits cleansed, will not betray the weeds, snake, or crippled mare. Never leave behind what the light shone on.”
-- Linda GreggSource : Linda Gregg (1991). “Sacraments of Desire”, Graywolf Press
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Source : Song: Almost Lover, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007
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“Be fanatics. When it comes to being and doing and dreaming the best, be maniacs.”
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Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “May We Be Forgiven”, p.114, Granta Books
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“Sleeping on it didn't make accepting it any easier. It seemed like a really bad dream.”
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