"Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone."

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Source : Frances Mayes (2014). “Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir”, p.245, Broadway Books

Frances Mayes

#Order Quotes #Obstacles Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Empowering women means trusting them.”
“Police officials routinely execute search warrants on private homes and offices, and Congressional offices should not be treated any differently. There cannot be one set of rules for elected officials and another set of rules for everyone else.”
“Protecting the human race should really come with a per diem, I swear.”
“Real humility does not depress you, but allows you to call intensely and brings us closer to Krishna.”
“I have learned to not let a bad race or failure bring me down, and always walking away with something positive and learning from mistakes so I can be better or stronger next time.”
“I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.”
“When I was four or five years old, I heard a lot of stories about the Holocaust because both my parents were survivors. I'm sure that was very important in my life. My father snuck out from under the floorboards to make love to my mother. I can't imagine why they kept me.”
“When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind.”

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