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“There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full all the small, daily joys. The bright sunshine on the breakfast table; the smell of the air at dusk; the sound of the clock ticking; the light rains that start gently after midnight; the hour when the family come home; Sunday-evening tea before the fire! I have never missed one moment of beauty, not even taken it for granted. Spring, summer, autumn, or winter. I wish I had failed as little in other ways.”
Source : Agnes Sligh Turnbull, “No Regrets”
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“Yet little by little, I was also becoming the girl who was learning to live with this, all of it, letting it weave together with everything else, the good and the bad, as life moved forward, because thats what life did, regardless of whether we were ready for it or not.”
Source : Donna Freitas (2011). “The Survival Kit”, p.344, Macmillan
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“A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes" by Brian Switek, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2013.
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“I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.”
Source : Angus Wilson (2012). “No Laughing Matter”, p.422, Faber & Faber
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“I’m not too into the trends - I like to look at trends as suggestions, not as rules.”
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“I was part of punk's second generation, so, not the first wave of '70s punk, but the American hardcore scene. I had a really strong love for music prior to that, but punk created a new template.”
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“I only write when listening to the music.”
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“But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night?”