"The world is wide, wide, wide, and I am young, young, young, and weâ€™re all going to live forever!"

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Source : Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.247, New York Review of Books

Elaine Dundy

#Forever Quotes #World Quotes #Young Quotes

“Successful people have control over the time in their life. A shoemaker who owns his own shop gets up one morning and says, "I'm not opening." That's a successful guy.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them? If so, how many rebellions should we have had already?”
“That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.”
“It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.”
“It's funny, I played a social gig once - we were playing music that was rhythm based, but it was going in some strange places. Some people came up to me afterward and said, "Can you play a tune that we'll all recognize?" I've carried that with me forever - why would you want a tune you could recognize? What's the point of that?”
“My father helped me leave. He said, 'It's all out there, it's not here.'”
“Were all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists havent been caught yet.”
“And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear As may, with sweetness, through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.”

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