"I can convert anyone."

-- Warren Mundine

“The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.”
“Man can change his destiny-not by wishing for it, but by working for it.”
“A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.”
“You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.”
“There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things.”
“What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet.”
“It is possible to eat English piecrust, whatever you may think at first. The English eat it, and when they stand up and walk away, they are hardly bent over at all.”
“The tunnels of our lives connect, coming to daylight at the oddest moments, and then plunge us into the dark again. We return to the lives of those who have gone before us, a perplexing mÃ¶bius strip until we come home, eventually, to ourselves.”

Source : Colum McCann (2013). “TransAtlantic: A Novel”, p.227, Random House

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