Shanley Caswell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.
The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.
Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.
The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in choosing the right dishes. You need to pick the nurturing ones (compassion), the healthy ones (love thy neighbor), not the bitter ones.
A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without
California, here I come, right back where I started from.
I sort of lived half my life in California, half in England, so I am, I suppose, a little bit American.

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