"Why don't you learn from my mistakes? It takes half your life to learn from your own."

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Source : Shelagh Delaney (2014). “A Taste of Honey”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing

Shelagh Delaney

#Mistake Quotes #Half Quotes #My Mistakes Quotes

“Marijuana. Boy, I thought that was just terrible. How could this great man do this to his life?”
“We believed it was better to pay as you go than it was to pay your bills by borrowing and laying up debts for another day. To pay as you go, that policy is a safer business policy and a saner business policy, and we thought it was a saner national policy.”
“I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.”

Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2011.
“Unless i'm reading an assignment or doing a paper or taking a test, i'm thinking about you.”
“You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.”
“I don't have a power nap when I have training. I take it so I am fresh again for the next session.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
“Survival is triumph enough.”

Source : Harry Crews (1993). “Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
“sooner or later, if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.”

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