"I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!" "Finish your eggs first."

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Lorraine Hansberry

#Eggs Quotes #Want Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.”
“From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but”

Source : James Cook (1897). “Captain Cook's Voyages Round the World”
“Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to write a perfect journalistic standard of my life. It was always to be as literature.”
“Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can.”

Source : "This Week in Fiction: Colm Tóibín" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2013.
“Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.”
“I do really well when a challenge is put in front of me. I don't just wake up and write. I like being forced to make decisions on the spot. I think that's why I've done so many things as a freelancer.”
“When it comes to sex there are certain things that should always be left unknown, and with my luck, they probably will be.”
“The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.”

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