"I'd rather come back with a few transcendent memories than an album of snapshots."

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Source : "Jack Holmes and His Friend". Book by Edmund White, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2012.

Edmund White

#Memories Quotes #Albums Quotes #Snapshots Quotes

“Talking to Lee Child and discovering, from his chapter in The Chopin Manuscript, that he's even more of an audio geek than I am (as his chapter in Chopin proves).”
“How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in stocks, bonds, mutual funds or savings accounts? Income property is the most historically proven asset class in America, if not the entire world. I rest my case.”

Source : Robert G. Allen (2006). “Creating Wealth: Retire in Ten Years Using Allen's Seven Principles of Wealth”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
“Challenges are the key in life. You always have to challenge yourself and try to get to different states.”
“One of those Christmas songs says, "You better not shout, you better not cry, you better not pout." How's my wife going to get along?”
“Every person on the face of the earth makes mistakes, Lily. Every last one. We're all so human. Your mother made a terrible mistake, but she tried to fix it.' 'Good night,' I said, and rolled onto my side. 'There is nothing perfect,' August said from the doorway. 'There is only life.”
“A teacher can do very little for a pupil and should only be thankful if he don't hinder him, and the greater the master, mostly the less he can say.”

Source : Henry Adams, Thomas Eakins (2005). “Eakins Revealed: The Secret Life of an American Artist”, p.150, Oxford University Press on Demand
“Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as I write.”
“For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates.”

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