"How beautiful the yesterday that stood Over me like a rainbow! I am alone, The past is past. I see the future stretch All dark and barren as a rainy sea."

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Source : Alexander Smith (1858). “A Life-drama, and Other Poems”, p.69

Alexander Smith

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“It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.”
“I like ghosts. I like friends. I like couplets. I like the idea of a mission.”
“The nourishment of Cezanne's awkward apples is in the tenderness and alertness they awaken inside us.”
“A woman who occupies the same realm of thought with man, who can explore with him the depths of science, comprehend the steps of progress through the long past and prophesy those of the momentous future, must ever be surprised and aggravated with his assumptions of leadership and superiority, a superiority she never concedes, an authority she utterly repudiates.”
“Every time I was cast in a role, the director put a gun in my hand, so I figured Iâ€™d better learn how to use one. Then I found out I really liked it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Michael Rooker from Sep 23, 2015
“Because words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes.”
“One source of frustration in the workplace is the frequent mismatch between what people must do and what people can do. When what they must do exceeds their capabilities, the result is anxiety. When what they must do falls short of their capabilities, the result is boredom. But when the match is just right, the results can be glorious. This is the essence of flow.”
“The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.”

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