"A guardian angel comes when you are very young, and gives you special dispensation. From what? From the world. Yours might be luck. Mine is money."

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Source : Jane Bowles (2014). “My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles”, p.12, Macmillan

Jane Bowles

#Angel Quotes #Giving Quotes #Luck Quotes

“...this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal...”
“There is a fine line I have to walk throughout the writing process in a novel. It is this line between drama and melodrama, and it is this line between evoking genuine emotional power and being manipulative.”
“[John Coltrane] liked my qualities as a person and that's the reason why he let me play with him. It wasn't what I was doing musically or my instrument or anything like that. He let me play whatever I wanted to play.”
“Failure is not an option!”

Source : "Gene Kranz, former flight director for NASA". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. April 11, 2000.
“The fundamental level of success is doing the hard things first - If you go for the feared thing first, then the rest of the day is easy.”
“Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.”
“Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.”
“These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.”

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