"That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect."

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Source : Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.387, Penguin

Lev Grossman

#Expectations Quotes #World Quotes #Way Quotes

“That's the easiest 69 I ever made.”
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”
“The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.”

Source : Al Capp (1991). “My Well-balanced Life on a Wooden Leg: Memoirs”, Daniel & Daniel Pub
“Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities.”

Source : "Civil Rights Commission Chair Highlights Celebration of Martin Luther King's Life". newsinfo.iu.edu. January 15, 2002.
“Elvis changed the country music scene quite a bit; he almost put country music out of business.”

Source : John Gilliland's Pop Chronicles, Show 9 - Tennessee Firebird: American country music before and after Elvis, Part 1, January 1968.
“Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.”
“In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesnâ€™t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesnâ€™t force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are there as if eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly silent and vast. I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!”
“After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn.”

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