"The difference is that was then, this is now."

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Source : Title of book (1971)

S. E. Hinton

#Differences Quotes

“There is much satisfaction in work well done; praise is sweet; but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.”

Source : Victor Robinson (1907). “William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft”
“The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are.”
“That instability is inherent in the nature of popular governments, I think very disputable â€¦ A representative democracy, where the right of election is well secured and regulated & the exercise of the legislature, executive, and judiciary authorities, is vested in select persons, chosen really and not nominally by the people, will in my opinion be most likely to be happy, regular and durable.”
“When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.”
“Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel, in a feel-thinking way. Not only giving ideas, or receiving ideas, or trying to explain something, but mainly feel-thinking, a feel-thinking language able to tie the heart and the mind, which have been divorced.”
“You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.”

Source : Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.41, Grove Press
“The idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty known to man only in perverted and insane temperaments, could not be held for a moment. For pure blasphemy, it made pure atheism a comfort.”
“Etiquette? What kind of etiquette was there in someone trying to murder me?”

Source : Jennifer Estep (2012). “Mythos Academy Bundle: First Frost, Touch of Frost, Kiss of Frost & Dark Frost”, p.454, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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