"Katie had a fierce desire for survival which made her a fighter. Johnny had a hankering after immortality which made him a useless dreamer. And that was the great difference between these two who loved each other so well."

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Source : Emmet Fox (1946). “Make your life worth while”, Harper San Francisco

Betty Smith

#Two Quotes #Differences Quotes #Dreamer Quotes

“The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.”
“Bikes are clearly a superior form of transportation when it comes to just simple getting around. A car makes sense if you need to carry a bunch of stuff.”
“Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.”
“It perhaps might be said--if any one dared--that the most worthless literature of the world has been that which has been written by the men of one nation concerning the men of another.”
“From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people...”

Source : Mary McCarthy (2011). “Memories Of A Catholic Girlhood”, p.15, Random House
“The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.”
“Household hollowness comes around in irregular cycles, like meteor showers. But the true sign of a bad patch is that it never feels temporary or fixable. It has a shudder of the inevitable to it. The thought crosses your mind that when love goes it goes all at once, and forever.”
“I got a woman that's mean as she can be, sometimes I think she's almost as mean as me.”

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