"After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand."

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Source : Jamie Ford (2011). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”, p.80, Allison & Busby

Jamie Ford

#Emotional Quotes #Lifetime Quotes #Stoic Quotes

“Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.”
“A key and a strangler - this is all a simple tale requires.”
“Life begins at age forty.”
“I'm glad I don't have to make a living farming. Too much hard work. Too many variables you don't have control over, like, is it going to rain? All I can say is, god bless the real farmers out there.”
“We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives.”
“It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the whole point.”

Source : Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word and other words”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it's happened I guess I'm just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The history of the meadow goes like this. No one owns it, no one ever will.”

Source : James Galvin (2014). “The Meadow”, p.4, Holt Paperbacks

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