"Good things, when short, are twice as good."

-- Tom Stoppard

#Writing Quotes #Editing Quotes #Good Things Quotes

“Carryin' a gun is a chancy thing. Sooner or later a man is put in a position to use it. And a body has to figure that if somebody packs iron he plans to use it when the time comes; and if he draws it out, he plans to shoot.”
“I remember when I met my wife and that she could just grab my hand and I would just ease. I dont know how to say that but it was one of the coolest things. It was strange, but it definitely changed my life.”
“But unless some great revolution in nature modifies the present relative level between land and sea, it may safely be maintained that the present outer reef is the final southern boundary of the North American continent.”
“The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.”
“The more they made noise, the more calm I became.”
“We enter the bardo, the intermediate state after #â€Ž death , just as we enter dream after falling asleep. If our experience of #â€Ž dream lacks clarity and is of confused emotional states and habitual reactivity, we will have trained ourselves to experience the processes of death in the same way.”

Source : Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Mark Dahlby (2004). “The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep”, p.82, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
“Every game I played against Henri Richard, he'd come up to behind me at some point and say, 'My brother's better than your brother.'”
“To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.”

Source : Kelly Gallagher, Richard L. Allington (2009). “Readicide: How Schools are Killing Reading and what You Can Do about it”, p.45, Stenhouse Publishers

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