"Anyone could see it all coming and no one could possibly stop it and that was the beautiful thing. Friday night was open wide and writ in stone"

-- Jonathan Lethem

#Beautiful Quotes #Friday Quotes #Night Quotes

“I've met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that all of them happened to be men I was working for at the time.”
“Make each day your masterpiece. Life is now. Life is not later on.”
“I have learned that trying again is important and decisivness is good. I have learned that silence hurts. I have learned about starting over and releasing pride.”
“While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.”
“Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess.”
“I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.”
“The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called "society," or the "nation," which is only a collection of individuals.”

Source : Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”
“I've always been the kind of person that if I take on anything professionally it means commitment to me, so you take it on if you can commit to it and if you know you can accommodate and give your best to it and that's what you do, and I have always done that throughout my life - before marriage, after marriage, before motherhood, after motherhood.”

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