"Extreme patience and persistence are required, Yet everybody succeeds at this before being handed The surprise box lunch of the rest of his life."

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John Ashbery

#Life Quotes #Patience Quotes #Growing Up Quotes

“Those that study particular sciences, and neglect philosophy, are like Penelope's wooers, that make love to the waiting women.”
“The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.”
“My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that.”

Source : 1994 Speech at the Booker Prize award ceremony, 11 Oct.
“Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.”
“... have a smile for everyone you meet and a plan to kill them.”

Source : Brad Thor (2012). “Brad Thor Collectors' Edition #3: The Last Patriot, The Apostle, and Foreign Influence”, p.328, Simon and Schuster
“And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists.”
“Michael O'Sullivan was my great friend. But I don't ever remember telling him that. The words that are spoken at a funeral are spoken too late for the man who is dead.”

Source : "Fictional character: Jackie O'Shea". "Waking Ned", 1998.
“People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.”

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