"In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong."

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Source : Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.72, Sarah Orne Jewett

Sarah Orne Jewett

#Regret Quotes #Cells Quotes #Secret Quotes

“Nobody can make more fun of me than I already make of myself.”
“When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.”
“There's no doubt about it: fun people are fun. But I finally learned that there is something more important, in the people you know, than whether they are fun. Thinking about those friends who had given me so much pleasure but who had also caused me so much pain, thinking about that bright, cruel world to which they'd introduced me, I saw that there's a better way to value people. Not as fun or not fun, or stylish or not stylish, but as warm or cold, generous or selfish. People who think about others and people who don't. People who know how to listen, and people who only know how to talk.”

Source : William Deresiewicz (2011). “A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter”, p.100, Penguin
“I refuse to say anything beyond five years because I don't think we can see much beyond five years.”

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“I just want to live like a full-time tourist, to show up at the airport, pick a destination, walk up to the counter and say, 'Do you have any first-class seats?'”
“yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the torn petals strew the garden plot; And there's but common greenness after that.”
“Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.”
“I get that that the violent illegal immigrants will be removed from the country. But what I am not hearing and I am wondering, for people out there - and, look, itâ€™s not just the liberal media, right? Itâ€™s also conservatives. Itâ€™s Rush Limbaugh. Itâ€™s Governor Sarah Palin. Itâ€™s other people who want Donald Trump to win who are saying, wow, it sounds like he is really backing away from this deportation forceâ€¦”

Source : "Trump team dodges and ducks". www.washingtonpost.com. August 29, 2016.

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