"It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory."

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Time Quotes #Memories Quotes #Past Quotes

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
“Deaf people are struggling to find their favorite show or something that represents them. It's hard. There are some examples of shows that have a deaf storyline in one episode, like Cold Case, or another show where they are focusing on the cochlear implant or the medical aspect.”
“The lessons of the past suggest that racism and resentment against people of color will continue to flourish in America as long as the history that is taught transposes the heroes and the villains. That is the unspoken truth at the heart of the nation's racial divide.”
“When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling the elegant orgies at the court of Louis XV, will recite the glories of Portmarnock and Merion, of the Road Hole at St. Andrews, the sixth at Seminole, the eighteenth at Pebble Beach. They will take out this volume from its secret hiding place and they will say: "There is no question, son, that these were unholy places in an evil age. Unfortunately, I had a whale of a time."”
“If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.”

Source : Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”
“The days will always be brighter because he existed. The nights will always be darker because he's gone.”
“Scouting is a man's job cut down to a boy's size.”
“It's easy to smile just to make other people feel better. But when a person fakes happy, it has edges. Regular people may not see, but the people who count, they can see the edges and the lines where your smile ends and the real you, the sadness (me) or the anger (Grandma) begins.”

Source : Heidi W. Durrow (2011). “The Girl Who Fell from the Sky”, p.29, Algonquin Books

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