Faint Odor Quotes by William Maxwell

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• If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.
• Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.
• A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone…
• Who knows what oversensitive is, considering all there is to be sensitive to.
• I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn’t have gone through and couldn’t get back to the place I hadn’t…
• The reason life is so strange is that so often people have no choice,
• Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his…
• My father represented authority, which meant—to me—that he could not also represent understanding.
• Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.
• In talking about the past, we lie with every breath we draw.
• Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out…
• The nail doesn't choose the time or the circumstances in which it is drawn to the magnet

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