"For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance."

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Mignon McLaughlin

#Life Quotes #Night Quotes #Literature Quotes

“Democracy only works when we claim it as our own”
“Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.”
“Time just gets away from us.”

Source : Charles Portis (2013). “Escape Velocity”, p.262, The Overlook Press
“Being an athlete is a state of mind which is not bound by age, performance or place in the running pack.”

Source : Jeff Galloway (1984). “Galloway's Book on Running”
“A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance.”
“It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape.”
“We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return ...”
“For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better.”

Source : Mark Strand (2000). “The Weather of Words: Poetic Invention”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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