"they danced as though they'd been waiting all their lives for each song."

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Amy Bloom

#Song Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“The one thing I don't understand is when people make comments who are clearly not fans of mine. I think, why are you here? Why are you wasting your time? It's fascinating.”

Source : "Playboy Interview 1994". Interview with Margy Rochlin, wiki.tarantino.info. 1994.
“Where there is Love and Wisdom, there is neither Fear nor Ignorance. Where there is Patience and Humility, there is neither Anger nor Annoyance. Where there is Poverty and Joy, there is neither Cupidity nor Avarice. Where there is Peace and Contemplation, there is neither Care nor Restlessness. Where there is the Fear of God to guard the dwelling, there no enemy can enter. Where there is Mercy and Prudence, there is neither Excess nor Harshness.”

Source : Saint Francis (of Assisi) (1964). “Writings”
“You cannot become a master until you actually take the leap, do the work, make several thousand mistakes, and live to tell about it.”
“You treat characters like people you meet in life-friends or mentors.”
“Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.”
“Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.”
“The true meaning of America, you ask? It's in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman's badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper... In all these things, and many more, you'll find America. In all these things, you'll find freedom. And freedom is what America means to the world. And to me.”
“There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust.”

Source : John Armstrong (2011). “John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice”, p.72, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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