"Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement."

-- Fay Weldon

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“I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude.”

Source : William Banting (2005). “Letter on Corpulence”, p.50, Cosimo, Inc.
“Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.”
“I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop.”
“I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake.”
“You learn a lot, writing fiction.”
“You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow, and then I sleep. What I have done, what I am doing, what I am going to do, puzzle and bewilder me. Have you ever been a leaf and fallen from your tree in autumn and been really puzzled about it? Thatâ€™s the feeling. (T.E. Lawrence to artist Eric Kennington, May 1935 )”

Source : Letter to Eric Kennington, May 06, 1935.
“Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.”

Source : Leo Calvin Rosten (1964). “The Many Worlds of L*e*o R*o*s*t*e*n: Stories, Humor, Social Commentary, Travelogues, Satire, Memoirs, Profiles, and Sundry Entertainments Never Before Published; with a Special Introd., Background Notes, Revelations and Confessions, All Hand-written and Themselves Worth the Price of Admission”
“I have been young, but now am old. I have spent a whole life-time in battling against infidelity with the weapons of apologetic science; but I have become ever more and more convinced that the way to the heart does not lie through the head; and that the only way to the conversion of the head lies through a converted heart which already tastes the living fruits of the gospel.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 137, 1895.

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