Quotes

Quotes for Pondering

Driftless (Paperback)

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ISBN-13: 9781571310682
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Published: Milkweed Editions, 05/01/2009
"Sometimes in the theater of winter, a day will appear with such spectacular mildness that it seems the season can almost be forgiven for all its inappropriate hostility, inconveniences, and even physical assaults. With a balmy sky overhead, melting snow underfoot, and the sound of creeks running the bargain made with contrasts doesn’t look so bad: to feel warm, one must remember cold, to experience joy, one must have known sorrow."

My Life in France (Paperback)

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ISBN-13: 9780307277695
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Published: Anchor, 10/01/2007
"'You never forget a beautiful thing that you have made,' [Chef Bugnard] said. 'Even after you eat it, it stays with you - always.'"

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ISBN-13: 9780307276827
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Published: Vintage, 04/01/2008
“When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you, but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, its your laugh."

Prodigal Summer (Paperback)

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ISBN-13: 9780060959036
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Published: Harper Perennial, 10/01/2001
“There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fence line.”

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ISBN-13: 9780684826974
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Published: Simon & Schuster, 06/01/1997
“Whenever the people are well-informed they can be trusted with their own government.” Thomas Jefferson