"The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something."

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Chauncey Depew

#Would Be Quotes #Gone Quotes #Possibility Quotes

“My Papa's Waltz: The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy. We romped until the pans Slid from the kitchen shelf; My mother's countenance Could not unfrown itself. The hand that held my wrist Was battered on one knuckle; At every step you missed My right ear scraped a buckle. You beat time on my head With a palm caked hard by dirt, Then waltzed me off to bed Still clinging to your shirt.”
“Royal blood isn't blue, it is a jaundiced shade of red and riddled with broken chromosomes”
“Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.”
“Take the Money and Run? Can Political and Socio-Critical Art â€˜Surviveâ€™?”
“All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.”
“Thought is the fountain of speech.”
“I don't believe in writer's block.”
“... he was sunset against the mountains, strong, vibrant, dangerous, and yet somehow sheltering, protective. And married. Picnic, meet rain.”

Source : Devon Monk (2009). “Magic in the Shadows: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.61, Penguin

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