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“I'm not interested in edges. I'm interested in the mass and color, the black and white. The edges happen because the forms get as quiet as they can be. I want the masses to perform. When I work with forms and colors, I get the edge.”

Want Happens Form Black White Color Quiet Mass Edges Black And White Not Interested

Author:Ellsworth Kelly

“I started out very quiet and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. de Maupassant. I've fought two draws with Mr. Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobody's going to get me in any ring with Mr. Tolstoy unless I'm crazy or I keep getting better.”

Thinking Two Hard Lasts Crazy Quiet Beats Draws Edges Rings Get Better

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“It's nice, when fishing, to catch a fish. But it doesn't really matter if you don't. What you always catch is a quiet time sitting at the water's edge, or in a gently rocking boat, a silent time of water and sky and the movement of natural things.”

Ifs Matter Water Natural Nice Sky Movement Quiet Sitting Silent Edges Fishes Boat Fishing Natural Things Quiet Time

Book:Forgotten pleasures: a guide for the seasonal adventurer

Source: Forgotten pleasures: a guide for the seasonal adventurer

“Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble and grand. The word my grandfather uses is comfort. So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything. Give no story. Make no claim. Where you can live at the edge of your skin for as long as you wish.”

Source: The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic

“He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire.”

Stories Earth Rooms Fire Middle Quiet Mountain Weight Edges Far Away Immensity Middle Earth Marching On Quiet Room

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. Sohrab's silence wasn't the self imposed silence of those with convictions, of protesters who seek to speak their cause by not speaking at all. It was the silence of one who has taken cover in a dark place, curled up all the edges and tucked them under.”

Self Would Be Speak Causes Dark Silence Taken Quiet Edges Conviction Pushing Volume Buttons Tranquility Silence Is Dark Places Knobs Peace Tranquility

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“If I am good enough and quiet enough, perhaps after all they will let me go; but it’s not easy being quiet and good, it’s like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you’ve already fallen over; you don’t seem to be moving, just dangling there, and yet it is taking all your strength.”

Ifs Enough Seems Moving Easy Quiet Let Me Edges Bridges Fallen Over You Good Enough Hanging On Let Me Go Being Quiet

Author:Margaret Atwood