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Provincetown Quotes

“Oblong stones sink slow and sideways. Shaped by the weight of waves, dutifully vibrating nature’s lunar-bound graces, they wash ashore only for closed palms to forsake them. The cheerful will cherish them, place them on windowsills, or on graves.”

Stones Graves Beach Shore Cheerful Sinking Forsake Waves Sideways Cape Cod Wash Palm Provincetown Windowsills

Book:Of My Maiden Smoking

Source: Of My Maiden Smoking

“Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the marshes of Holland, but then the summer ended and most of the painters left, and the long dingy undergarment of the gray New England winter, gray as the spirit of my mood, came down to visit.”

Source: Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel

“I think of my father growing up in South Jersey, the son of second-generation German immigrant glassblowers. The opportunities for him of feeling that aspiration, that yearning, get out of the small town, connect to a larger world, get yourself to New York, wanting to play the piano at every opportunity, bonding with people who were on a similar path, ending up in Provincetown, which was kind of nexus for nonconformity, and artistic dropout reality.”

“I live in San Francisco, I live in Provincetown. They're all the same, apart from Baltimore. Baltimore's the only cheap place left.”

Left San Francisco Baltimore Provincetown

Author:John Waters

“Leo Connellan has retained his soul and voice in Provincetown and Other Poems.”

Soul Voice Provincetown

Author:Karl Shapiro

“I hope that the residents of my current district - from Quincy to Provincetown and the Islands - know that their well-being is my primary concern and nothing changes that.”

Knows Wells Concern Currents Primaries Well Being Islands Things Change Residents Provincetown

Author:Bill Keating