"If you really want to know, Iâ€™d rather not have been born at all. I find life very tiring. The thingâ€™s done now, of course, and I canâ€™t alter it. But there will always be this regret at the back of my mind, I shall never quite be able to get rid of it, and it will spoil everything. The thing to do now is to grow old quickly, to eat up the years as fast as possible, looking neither right nor left."

-- J.M.G. Le ClÃ©zio

#Regret Quotes #Years Quotes #Mind Quotes

“The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.”

Source : "Death of Baron De Kalb" by Benjamin Franklin Ells, 1849.
“The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.”
“...she wasn't reading Deathly Hallows at all. Her book wasn't orange but rose and water and sand, and featured a kid on a broomstick and white unicorn. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. She didn't notice me staring at her. 'Oh, I envy you,' I thought, but was smiling for her. She had just begun.”
“Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren't many records stores around to just go and browse. Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life's simple pleasures.”
“I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has.”
“Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.”
“There are no facts, only stories.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Harvey McGavin, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2004.
“We have a very intelligent team. I've had clubs that when you tell a guy to go back door, he leaves the gym. Or you tell the team you're going to have a closed practice and eight guys don't show up.”

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