"This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve."

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Source : Wilkie Collins (2013). “The Woman in White”, p.1, Courier Corporation

Wilkie Collins

#Patience Quotes #Men Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, it was people like Elton John, Billy Joel, Ben Folds, and Fiona Apple. As I got older I got deeper into the work of bands like the Beatles, artists like Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Etta James, and Joni Mitchell.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it's done.”

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“It didn't matter that there were actually two lakes there, ... It didn't matter that he had only $300 in his pocket. He had the gall, or the zeal, to call it not a school, or a college, but a university.”
“O little one, My little one, Come with me, Your life is done. Forget the future, Forget the past. Life is over: Breathe your last.”
“I had girlfriends, but settling down was the last thing on my mind.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.”
“A good man ("un homme de bien", Fr.) never wholly perishes, the best part of his being outlives (or survives) in eternity.”
“Honor must start in the heart, but if it ends there, it isnâ€™t honor. Honor must be expressed through words, symbols, actions, or gestures. Honor is among the most incarnational of the virtues. It must have feet and hands.”

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