"Decide what the rest of your life is to be. Whatever you are now, you might be forever."

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Source : Mavis Gallant (2016). “The Collected Stories”, p.647, Everyman's Library

Mavis Gallant

#Forever Quotes #Might Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“My basic rule is if the relative risk isn't at least 3 or 4, forget it.”
“We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax. No tinkering with this, that, or the other law will stop the trend toward socialism. We must repeal the Sixteenth Amendment.”

Source : Frank Chodorov (2007). “Income Tax: Root of All Evil”, p.10, Ludwig von Mises Institute
“Brown Bear, Brown Bear was kind of my first important book”
“My mother has always been my role model, and I believe my survival in the entertainment business is in large part due to my desire to be a strong woman like my mother. She is my hero.”
“And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A feeling which is more complicated, curdled, and primeval. Whose chief characteristic is that nothing can be done about it: too much time has passed, too much damage has been done, for amends to be made.”
“I think of the Sixties as being every man for himself.”

Source : "People thought I was a freak. I kind of liked that" by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. August 02, 2008.
“The closest you can get to perfection is constant improvement.”
“Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk - real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.”

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