#window

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Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.


Natalie Merchant


#childhood #different #different people #experiences #gives

And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete transformation of musical identities. All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.


Archie Shepp


#complete #grown #had #i #identities

Even in Los Angeles, where we lived, when we would date somebody or go out with them, if we went out with somebody else the next night, we often found that women were banging on our windows while we were bedded down with other women!


Burt Ward


#banging #date #down #else #even

Do I have to use my feet? Can I knock the window out with my head?


Wendy O. Williams


#head #i #knock #out #use

Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote.


China Miéville


#grammar

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.


Honore de Balzac


#careless #daylight #difference #gambler #his

It reminds me to say that staying local should never be about looking at the world through a closed window, but about making a home then throwing the doors open and inviting the world in.


Simon Armitage


#closed #doors #home #inviting #local

I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.


Warren Bennis


#being #control #cutting #doing #end

Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.


Marsha Sinetar


#determine #downs #goals #life #obstacles

Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.


Bram Stoker


#against #became #black #broken #came