"He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between."

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Source : John McPhee (2011). “The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed”, p.42, Macmillan

John McPhee

#Letters Quotes #Action Quotes #Inventing Quotes

“Always revisit your decisions in the light of new knowledge and information. Don't be afraid to change.”

Source : Chris Guillebeau (2014). “The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life”, p.214, Harmony
“The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.”

Source : "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 508), 1977.
“I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again.”
“Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.”

Source : 'Imitations of Horace' Epilogue to the Satires (1738) Dialogue 1, l. 135
“I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.”
“Because I was big, I didn't have to listen to anyone doubting me. I was just considered good at football or whatever, there were no questions about it.”
“Specificity of time and place drop away and one starts to think about the picture, as much as what it is of.”
“I traveled with my mother, Lela, and there was never enough money. I always had to roll down my silk stockings and carry a doll when we bought train tickets so I could go half-fare. If we had $3, we always figured how to tip for the trunks and still eat.”

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