"Things last so much longer than people."

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Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1939). “Song of Years”

Bess Streeter Aldrich

#People Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“Even as she'd been writing it, she wondered if she was using too many exclamation marks, but she was glad she left them in. Nothing says "all is good in the world" like exclamation marks, after all.”
“We could play them through the week, and then the weekend we could play the black joints. I learned to be very versatile and learned to love it. So it stays with me even up to now.”
“Basketball came to me and for some reason it gave me an opportunity to live a life that I didn't dream possible. But it did let me live my dreams.”
“My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace.”
“I am wise enough to know that there are some perils from which a man must flee.”

Source : "Fictional character: Faramir". 'The Two Towers' ('The Lord of the Rings'), Book by J. R. R. Tolkien, 1954.
“I'm handed a bunch of existing data. My job is to put that in the best narrative form. That is a puzzle I love to solve.”

Source : "'Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily'". Interview with Kathryn Borel, Jr., logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015.
“[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.”
“I'm not a big drinker, but coffee is important to me.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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