"People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error."

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Source : Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.108, Macmillan

Florence King

#Dream Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Native American Quotes

“Young people and adults need equitable relationships-they do not need equal ones.”
“The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in the eroded sea coasts a cheap battleground on which they could whip their fellow men in a game based on the Calvinist doctrine that man is meant to suffer here below and never more than when he goes out to enjoy himself.”
“We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century”
“Women do well in their thirties. They put their bags down and say, 'This is who I am - like it or lump it.' There is a more relaxed quality, which I like.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.”

Source : Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.72, Sarah Orne Jewett
“Actually, when they have celebrity look-alikes, Im always put up there with Joe Torre.”
“It's weird, how much he's noticed me... And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I imagined, either.”
“It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation”

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