"To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago."

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Source : Roger Zelazny (1978*). “Sign of the unicorn. The hand of Oberon. The Courts of Chaos”

Roger Zelazny

#Oedipus Quotes #Guy Quotes #Wish Quotes

“Let me say something about that word: miracle. For too long it's been used to characterize things or events that, though pleasant, are entirely normal. Peeping chicks at Easter time, spring generally, a clear sunrise after an overcast week--a miracle, people say, as if they've been educated from greeting cards.”

Source : Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.3, Atlantic Monthly Press
“. . . personal soundness is not an absence of problems but a way of reacting to them.”
“To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in the present state of Science, than to subject the microbe (the new and happy term introduced by M. SÃ©dillot) to the method of cultivation out of the body.”
“In India the human being is a symphonic theme. 'The people' is not a compact, close-knit concept, but a sprawling one, flowing not only into different walks of life, but into the intricately woven multi-layers of privilege, wealth, and education. 'The people' created by Gandhi is a young concept.”

Source : Nayantara Sahgal (1963). “From fear set free”
“But as in wailing there's nought availing, And Death unfailing will strike the blow, Then for that reason, and for a season, Let us be merry before we go.”

Source : ?1773 'Let Us Be Merry Before We Go'.
“I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read”
“Anything is always a possibility. Wouldn't talk about what we would have done or what we would do. Everything is a possibility.”
“I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.”

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