George Selden · 176 pages
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“I guess I'm just feeling Septemberish," sighed Chester. "It's getting towards autumn now. And it's so pretty up in Connecticut. All the trees change color. The days get very clear―with a little smoke on the horizon from burning leaves. Pumpkins begin to come out.”
― George Selden, quote from The Cricket in Times Square
“Talent is something rare and beautiful and precious,
and it must not be allowed to go to waste.”
― George Selden, quote from The Cricket in Times Square
“Chester's playing filled the station. Like ripples around a stone dropped into still water, the circles of silence spread out from the newsstand. And as people listened, a change came over their faces. Eyes that looked worried grew soft and peaceful; tongues left off chattering; and ears full of the city's rustling were rested by the cricket's melody.”
― George Selden, quote from The Cricket in Times Square
“Neatness was not one of the things he aimed at in life.”
― George Selden, quote from The Cricket in Times Square
“Just this once, in the very heart of the busiest of cities, everyone was perfectly content not to move and hardly to breathe. And for those few minutes, while the song lasted, Times Square was still as a meadow at evening, with the sun streaming in on the people there and the wind moving among them as if they were only tall blades of grass.”
― George Selden, quote from The Cricket in Times Square
“Tucker the mouse said I learned the value of ecomonicness - which means savings.”
― George Selden, quote from The Cricket in Times Square
George Selden
Born place: in Hartford, Connecticut, The United States
Born date May 14, 1929
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