"To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up."

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Paula McLain

#Past Quotes #Together Quotes #Tradition Quotes

“All the wonders you seek are within yourself. We should seek to discover our own special light. Know how to live within yourself; there in your soul lives a whole world of mysterious and enchanted thoughts; they will be drowned by noise of this world. Be still and listen to their singing and be silent.”
“The Palestinians are a miserable people...and they deserve to be.”
“I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself.”
“The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, [and] herbs to drink the smoke thereof, as they are accustomed. The first certain reference in history to smoking tobacco.”
“New Jersey gives us glue.”
“There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit ...”
“The human mind can hardly remain entirely free from bias, and decisive opinions are often formed before a thorough examination of a subject from all its aspects has been made.”
“I’ve had a great life, and it all happened because I didn’t plan any of it.”

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