quotes about Toffee

last updated: November 28, 2023

I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self.
-- John Banville

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“Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.”
“Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now by (some men's magazines). My whole notion was the romantic connection between male and female.”
“The more games you get, the more confidence you gain. I started to set the bar high for myself.”
“a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.”
“Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.”
“I need music like I need water.”
“Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance, a path through the grief of that insult into joy.”
“Every room that you walk into is better off that you're there.”

Source : "Jimmy Iovine: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 11, 2013.
“Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.”
“They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.”