"In the mornings when they were in the city, they had breakfast on a card table in Jeffrey's study"

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Source : John P. Marquand (2015). “So Little Time: A Novel”, p.7, Open Road Media

John P. Marquand

#Morning Quotes #Cities Quotes #Cards Quotes

“No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.”
“I was brooding, boy. Than which there is no richer pastime. It muffles one with rotting plumes. It gives forth sullen music. It is the smell of home.”
“What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and did not really know.”

Source : "The last word on Depression" by AC Grayling, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2000.
“But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy.”
“Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.”
“Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls. Instead, we must migrate rapidly to becoming a global 'team of teams' that comes together in whatever combination necessary to add the greatest value to the changes underway.”
“I think what we've experienced in the past is that people do like to be challenged.”
“Historically, means cannot be separated from ends ...”

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