"The past is always a rebuke to the present."

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Source : Robert Penn Warren, Floyd C. Watkins, John T. Hiers (1980). “Robert Penn Warren talking: interviews, 1950-1978”, Random House (NY)

Robert Penn Warren

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“So I learned another system: When in doubt, keep it out â€“ out of earshot, out of the house â€“ even if this meant, really, just keeping it in.”
“I was at number one in Australia with both my album and my single. And then I was told I had cancer. I thought, 'What a strange turn of events.'”
“I can let you in, Eva. Iâ€™m trying. But your first response when I screw up is to run away. You do it every time and I canâ€™t stand feeling like any moment Iâ€™m going to do or say something wrong and youâ€™re going to bolt.”
“Preoccupied with her self, the adolescent sees enormous changes, whereas the parent sees the child she knew all along. For the parent, new developments are superficial and evanescent. For the adolescent, they are thrilling and profound.”
“I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“All this beauty exists so you and I can see His glory, His artwork. It's like an invitation to worship Him, to know Him.”
“A faith that can be destroyed by suffering is not faith.”

Source : "If Prison Walls Could Speak". Book by Richard Wurmbrand, 1972.
“She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite, and that people who make dates are the same kind who need lines on their writing paper, or who always squeeze up from the bottom on a tube of toothpaste.”

Source : Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.49, Everyman's Library

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