"Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?"

-- Ernest Hemingway

#Live Life To The Fullest Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Half Quotes

“I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my community, I was a musician.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.”
“The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”
“that's because it's from the night, and the night keeps secrets”
“The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in the echoing hall resembled more the grunting of pigs. One was less than a wolf: he was a public prosecutor. The other was more than a pig, he was a chief commissioner of police.”
“China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn't China involved? They're going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world economically. And we're spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing the world. Why isn't China involved with Libya? That - we don't get oil from Libya, China does.”
“When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives originated in the most trifling circumstances; how the beginning of our greatest happiness or greatest misery is to be attributed to a delay, to an accident, to a mistake; we learn a lesson of profound humility.”
“I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it”

Source : Richard Wright (1998). “Black Boy”, Turtleback

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