"He smelled cold water and cold intrepid green.……" — Paul Harding
"He smelled cold water and cold intrepid green. Those early flowers smelled like cold water. Their fragrance was not the still perfume of high summer; it was the smell of cold, raw green."
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15 Quotes by Paul Harding
Paul Harding has 15 quotes on this site.
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I breathed the book before I saw it; tasted the book before I read it.
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What of miniature boats constructed of birch bark and fallen leaves, launched onto cold water clear as air? How many…
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There is my father whispering in my ear, Be still still still. And yet you change everything. What was the…
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Light changes, our eyes blink and see the world from the slightest difference of perspective and our place in it…
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I was ravenous for my child and took to gorging myself in the boneyard, hoping that she might possibly meet…
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I was just delighted to be a legitimate, for-real published author.
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I worry that if whatever pops into your head at any instant immediately goes online, you lose the crucial time…
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Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact.
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Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is…
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If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.
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Who was the greatest business man ever. . . The greatest salesman? Advertiser? Who? . . . It was Jesus.…
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When his grandchildren had been little, they had asked if they could hide inside the clock. Now he wanted to…
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Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested…
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Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when…
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a…
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My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
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Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
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I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.
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I love cold, rainy weather.
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
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I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems…
— Adele
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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets,…
— John Desmond Bernal
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
— John Betjeman
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