"It is the bungled crime that brings remorse."

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P. G. Wodehouse

#Regret Quotes #Crime Quotes #Remorse Quotes

“The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.”
“At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.”

Source : "The American Action Painter," Art News, Dec. 1952
“I never cared,â€ he said. â€œI wanted you anyway. I always wanted you.”
“I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably.”
“My great strength as an editor, I believe, is structure: I know how to reorder a piece, I know how to reach into a jumbled story and extract the important narrative. And I can do both of these things very fast. I also think I've become better at cutting text. You don't always relish it, of course, but by now I know how to distill something without sacrificing its essence.”

Source : Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.
“Much we learn only to forget it again, to stand by the goal, we must traverse all the way to it”
“The whole analogy of natural operations furnishes so complete and crushing an argument against the intervention of any but what are termed secondary causes, in the production of all the phenomena of the universe; that, in view of the intimate relations between Man and the rest of the living world; and between the forces exerted by the latter and all other forces, I can see no excuse for doubting that all are co-ordinated terms of Nature's great progression, from the formless to the formed from the inorganic to the organic from blind force to conscious intellect and will.”
“Reveal yourself, mage! Only a coward stays cloaked in invisibility.”

Source : Kristen Britain (2004). “First Rider's Call: Book Two of Green Rider”, p.182, Penguin

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