"After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end."

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Source : Sarah Addison Allen (2014). “Lost Lake”, p.120, St. Martin's Press

Sarah Addison Allen

#Book Quotes #Mind Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't serious because I was smart. I wasn't like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious - like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school.”
“Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.”

Source : John Osborne (2013). “John Osborne Plays 1: Look Back in Anger; Epitaph for George Dillon; The World of Paul Slickey; Dejavu”, p.128, Faber & Faber
“What can change the world today is the same thing that has changed it in the past-an idea and the service of dedicated, committed individuals to that idea.”

Source : Sargent Shriver (1964). “Point of the lance”
“I don't think there are too many rock bands in history that can look at the beginning and middle and ending of themselves and see what I see when I think of Soundgarden. I think from the beginning through the middle and the end it was such a perfect ride and such a perfect legacy to leave,”
“I do think it's important to expose kids to artists.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.”
“When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.”
“I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular.”

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