Page 107 Quotes

“Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.”
― Ralph Ellison, Living with Music: Jazz Writings

“No further messages had been insinuated under his door. He was asleep when his head touched the pillow.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man

“Ellen’s voice on the telephone was as bright as the slant of the sun dividing the drapes on the lanai windows. “I let you sleep as long as I could.” His watch hands read quarter to ten. She was speaking with an eager carelessness, girl to boy, in case anyone was listening. “Do you want to come out and get me? I’m moving to The Palms.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man