"Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical."

-- Leslie Fiedler

#People Quotes #Historical Quotes #Generations Quotes

“You never wish on shooting stars. You wish on the ones that have the courage to shine where they are.”

Source : Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.17, SCB Distributors
“If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.”
“We have seen enough of war to know that it doesn't work to resolve conflicts. It only exacerbates them. It is time we find other solutions and dedicate ourselves to life-not death.”
“Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.”
“Everything that man can imagine, he is capable of creating,”
“Marketing takes a day to learn. Unfortunately, it takes a lifetime to master.”
“Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.”
“Once upon a time . . .â€ â€œIn the beginning was . . .â€ Thatâ€™s the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history, chronicle, myth, legend, folktale, or old wivesâ€™ tale blues riff begins with â€œWoke up this morninâ€™. . . .”

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