"The absolute negative, the ultimate saying of no to the world, when it is just too late. And always the subtle conviction that if you had said No a moment earlier, it would none of it have happened. But the saying of no comes too late by a little. You are always a little too late in saying it."

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Source : Don Berry (1960). “Trask: A Novel”

Don Berry

#Littles Quotes #Negative Quotes #Too Late Quotes

“Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same.”
“Love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons.”
“Do not become angry and furious.... for those two emotions lead to wickedness, and wickedness leads to the Hellfire.”
“..She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.”
“Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.”
“It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.”
“I spent a lot of time teaching myself theory and harmony so I could be free to express myself on the instrument.”

Source : "The Guitar Handbook". Book by Ralph Denyer, 1992.
“A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking place in the heavens.”

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