"To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts."

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Source : Ruth Gordon (1971). “Myself Among Others”

Ruth Gordon

#Giving Up Quotes #Gambling Quotes #Luck Quotes

“Let Love step down, open the clasped hands, forfeit the thorny crown, retrieve the garment that was whole, body and spirit one, spirit and soul.”

Source : Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.481, New Directions Publishing
“Human cloning is coming.”
“It doesn't make your life stop being fun to be a Christian.”
“Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.”

Source : Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks”
“I told graduates to not be afraid to fail, and I still believe that. But today I tell you that whether you fear it or not, disappointment will come. The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.”
“I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.”
“"Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool."”
“True love is that we should hate whatever interferes with our vision of the high and the lowly.”

Source : "Arrive at Easterwine" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 6), 1971.

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