Coleman Dowell quotes
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“It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. . . . Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.”
-- Coleman DowellSource : Coleman Dowell (1974). “Mrs. October was Here”, p.214, New Directions Publishing
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“Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.”
-- Coleman DowellSource : Coleman Dowell (1974). “Mrs. October was Here”, p.214, New Directions Publishing
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“Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.”
-- Coleman DowellSource : "Mrs. October was Here".
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“Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.”
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“Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.”
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“May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.”
Source : Abraham Cowley, A. R. Waller (2014). “Poems”, p.88, Cambridge University Press
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“Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.”
Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 289-93, Translation of Greek Proverb, Book XIII. 17. 3, 1922.
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