"Adventurers tend to prance about the ladder of success, fearing less the sensation of a great fall than the humility of hanging idle."

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Source : Mike Caro (1984). “Caro on Gambling”, Lyle Stuart

Mike Caro

#Fall Quotes #Humility Quotes #Ladders Quotes

“Most of my music is improvisation, and composition is improvisation. Even if I have a score, it is improvisation.”
“My wife said, 'Can my mother come down for the weekend?' So I said, 'Why?' And she said, 'Well, she's been up on the roof two weeks already.'”

Source : "They're not laughing now". www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.
“I suppose I felt guilty not to be doing something more important, more political. So in a way I am trying to use the company for these other activities.”
“I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.”
“It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy.”
“Poetry either pulses with real life or it's just an aborted simulacra. There's no middle ground.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.”

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