"One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old."

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Source : Ellen Gilchrist (2010). “The Writing Life”, p.10, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Ellen Gilchrist

#Inspirational Quotes #Years Quotes #Reason Quotes

“Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow.”
“I have no past--the steps have disappeared the wind has blown them away.”

Source : James Kavanaugh (1994). “God Lives: From Religious Fear to Spiritual Freedom”, Steven J. Nash Publishing
“What senses do we lack that we cannot see or hear another world all around us?”
“There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.”

Source : The Unquiet Grave Pt II
“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”

Source : "Why We Need To Understand Science". The Skeptical Inquirer Vol. 14, Issue 3, www.csicop.org. Spring 1990.
“With the benefit of hindsight, had more care been taken, maybe this could have been avoided”

Source : Paul Burrell (2003). “A royal duty”
“Words are one thing, deeds are quite another.”
“For me, no matter how serious the subject is, when I try to write about it, I have to write about it from a comic point of view. It's just the way it comes out.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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