"In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile."

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Source : Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.42, Kent State University Press

Elinor Wylie

#Years Quotes #Aging Quotes #Mask Quotes

“Any peace process after so many years of horror and terror will be long and difficult.”
“Eve: Anyway, thanks for riding to the rescue. You need a white hat. Good guys wear white, right? Roarke: I look better in black.”
“I am a community activist, philanthropist, breast cancer survivor, advocate and founder and board chair of the Thelma D. Jones Breast Cancer Fund. I am also a parent, grandparent, and a doting pet owner.”
“I don't think I'd like to argue with you," I say. "I think it would be a very dissatisfying pastime.”
“As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one can prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think that I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because, when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods.”
“I want her to be smart and kind... and I want you to fall in love with her, because you shouldn't spend the rest of your life alone.”
“The Transformation of the World is lavishly reinforced with critical apparatus (that, too, must have been a labor of Hercules to translate--I honestly never expected to see this book in English), but by far its greatest attraction is the intelligence and more important the wisdom of its author. It's a towering achievement no serious reader should miss.”
“Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable.”

Source : Colleen Hoover (2012). “Slammed: A Novel”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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