"I made a boy's mistake, common enough, of thinking that real life was knowing many things and many people, living dangerously in faraway places, crossing the sea, or starting a power company on the Columbia River, a steamship line in Bolivia."

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Mark Helprin

#Real Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Boys Quotes

“I'm beginning to think that women should be denied the vote. Their hormones rage; they are too emotional.”
“I like everything in my room has to be in order. If there's a wrinkle in the comforter, I'm stretching it out. But this is only when it comes to my room. Outside of there, I'm not as intense.”
“You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.”
“If I had been living through the '80s, I probably would've gotten into a lot more trouble than my parents.”
“Success is best measured by the achiever.”
“The only man who could make a love scene comfortable was Clark Gable. He was born graceful, he knew what to do with his feet and when he took hold of you, there was no fooling around.”

Source : Rosalind Russell, Chris Chase (1979). “Life is a Banquet”
“You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.”
“I rarely do masks because, if I have any extra time, I'd rather spend it with my friends than on myself.”

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