"The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read."

-- Benjamin Franklin

#Reading Quotes #Rainy Day Quotes #Pity Quotes

“I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much my identity.”
“The life of the golfer is not all gloom; There's always the lies in the locker room.”
“... hunger and cold, ill-health and pain are nothing. They pass. The thing that remains is ignorant criticism, well-meaning but futile advice, the contempt of a subordinate, the feelings of the underdog.”
“No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.”

Source : Hilary Putnam (1987). “The many faces of realism”, Open Court Pub Co
“The game is never lost till won.”
“To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.”
“Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.”

Source : Mary Roberts Rinehart (2015). “A Poor Wise Man”, p.265, Sheba Blake Publishing
“We like t'believe that everything's got an explanation...that our years on this earth make a safe kinda sense. We build ourselves up with explantions and rationalizations t'make us nice and comfortable--an' some people manage t'get through their lives without ever having to question any of it. But I think most of us have learned that...just when we least expect it...something comes droppin' down out o' the heavens...that blows all our comfortable ideas right t'pieces.”

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