"I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past."

-- Alan Furst

#Book Quotes #Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The sea remains the greatest wilderness. To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit.”

Source : Steven Callahan (2002). “Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea”, p.252, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Worship is as natural to the human family as the sing of the sun is to the cosmic order.”
“My opening line to my students, and a recurring theme in my classes, was that the big design problem isn't designing a house for your parents or yourself, a museum, or a toaster, or a book, or whatever. Â The big design problem is designing your life.Â It's by the design of your life that you create the backboard off which you bounce all your thoughts and ideas and creativity. Â You have to decide what it is that you want to do each day.”
“I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well. Devastation, balm, obsession, granting and receiving excessive value, and losing it again. It is recognition, often of what you are not but might be. It sears and it heals. It is beyond pity and above law. It can seem like truth.”

Source : Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.41, Knopf
“I respect very much my public and also the music I perform.”
“Believe in yourself, then others will believe in yourself.”
“They don't matter. I thought I had to prove something, and I did, to myself. There's nothing left for me to prove. I can move on with my life.”

Source : Tami Hoag (2004). “Kill the Messenger”, p.397, Bantam
“If you take the teachings of Jesus, whether you consider yourself saved or you don't, those teachings are pristine. They're wonderful guides for life. And there's nothing in them that says hurt other people.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com

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