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Eugene Field
"All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it"
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Source : Eugene Field, Charles Walter Brown (1905). “John Smith, U.S.A.”
Eugene Field
#Wings Quotes
#Joy Quotes
#Heaven Quotes
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“lack of self-esteem is what causes wars because people who really love themselves don't go out and try to fight other people ... It's the root of all the problems.”
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“There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.”
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“I think the tendency with parents is to make your kid not unlike the next kid but to overprotect and say, "My way's better than whatever you've got in mind." But by the time that tie's over that shoulder and they're drinking that obligatory brewski with the boys, it's like, Man, who are you people?”
Source : Source: www.esquire.com
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“The only option for a creative person was constant motion—a lifetime of busy whirligigging in a generally forward direction, until you couldn’t do it any longer.”
Source : Meg Wolitzer (2013). “The Interestings: A Novel”, p.29, Penguin
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“Only your friends steal your books.”
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“Good decisions don't make life easy, but they do make it easier.”
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“It's easy, man. I just take the ball and throw. Hard! It's a God-given talent! No one can teach it to you. They either hit it or they don't.”
Source : Vida Blue, Bill Libby (1972). “Vida: His Own Story”, Prentice Hall
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“Hair is the greatest thing to experiment with because it's not permanent. If I didn't like my colour, I'd just change it.”