Zona Gale quotes
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“I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.”
-- Zona GaleSource : Zona Gale (1907). “The Loves of Pelleas and Etarre”
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“I can never understand why I should eat at one or sleep at eleven, if it is, as it often is, my one and my eleven and nobody else's. For, as between the clock and me alone, one and eleven and all other o'clocks are mine and I am not theirs. But I have known men and women living in hotels who would interrupt a sunset to go to dine, or wave away the stars in their courses to go to sleep, merely because the hour had struck.”
-- Zona GaleSource : "Friendship Village Love Stories".
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“Loving, like prayer, is a power as well as a process. It's curative. It is creative.”
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“When you look at a corpse you can always sense your own breath better.”
-- Zona GaleSource : Zona Gale (1909). “Friendship Village Love Stories”
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“I tell you of all history the most beautiful product is the family tie.”
-- Zona GaleSource : Zona Gale (2013). “Miss Lulu Bett: A Play in Three Acts”, p.47, Lulu.com
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“The unexpressed is always of greater value than the expressed.”
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“Always he had wanted to tell somebody about his life, but when he had tried, his confidante had looked at him.”
-- Zona GaleSource : Zona Gale (1927). “Yellow gentians and blue”
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“What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.”
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Source : Source: www.usatoday.com
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“The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.”
Source : Algernon Blackwood (2015). “The Wolves of God: Blackwood Collections”, p.146, 谷月社
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“Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.”
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“Too hard for any frog's digestion,To have his froghood call'd in question!”
Source : Christopher Smart (1791). “The poems, of the late Christopher Smart, ... Consisting of his prize poems, odes, sonnets, and fables, Latin and English translations; ...”, p.16
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