"When you're young, and you head out to wonderful, everything is fresh and bright as a brand new penny, but before you get to wonderful you're going to have to pass through all right. And when you get to all right, stop and take a good long look, because that may be as far as you're ever going to go."

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Source : Robert Goolrick (2013). “Heading Out to Wonderful”, p.310, Algonquin Books

Robert Goolrick

#Long Quotes #May Quotes #Pennies Quotes

“I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why.”
“Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.”
“I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.”
“When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.”
“I think, a general anxiety, after the end of the Cold War, to find a new basis for affirming American nationhood. And perhaps another, in plainer terms, is the lure of the approaching Abraham Lincoln bicentennial has been made a resurgence in interest in Lincoln.”

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“People will justify whatever for a good cause.”
“It's the character that is the strongest that God gives the most challenges to. Take your struggles as a compliment.”
“I dont see lines of force as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.”

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