"How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible."

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Source : Karen Thompson Walker (2012). “The Age of Miracles”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

Karen Thompson Walker

#Disappointment Quotes #Age Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“I'd say that any character or setting can be given a bit of an otherworldly sheen and be the better for it. The one thing I insist on with my own writing is that I won't let magic solve my characters' real world problems. The solutions have to come from the characters themselves.”
“That's why you and I had friction? God, I always thought it was 'cause, 'cause I fooled around with your daughter freshman year.”
“Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he did meet skeptics he could not convince and sinners he could not convert. Forgiveness of sins requires an act of will on the receiver's part, and some who heard Jesus' strongest words about grace and forgiveness turned away unrepentant.”
“In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part.”

Source : Michael Bruce (1895). “The Poetical Works of Michael Bruce with Life and Writings”
“There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.”

Source : Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan
“World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor - it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.”
“I love Fidel Castro, I respect Fidel Castro, you know why? A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60 years, but that motherf****r is still here.”
“It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.”

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