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Norman Maclean

"I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literatureâ€”not for long, of course, but long enough to be what we best remember, and often enough so that what we eventually come to mean by life are those moments when life, instead of going sideways, backwards, forward, or nowhere at all, lines out straight, tense and inevitable, with a complication, climax, and, given some luck, a purgation, as if life had been made and not happened."

Source : Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.127, University of Chicago Press

Norman Maclean

#Mean Quotes #Long Quotes #Luck Quotes

“She'd preferred the uncertainty, if only because it allowed her to remember him the way he used to be. Sometimes, though, she wondered what he felt when he thought of that year they spent together, or if he ever marveled at what they'd shared, or even whether he thought of her at all.”
“There are far more good actors than there are jobs for them, so it's a big question of luck.”
“There's facts about dogs, and then there's opinions about them. The dogs have the facts, and the humans have the opinions. If you want the facts about the dog, always get them straight from the dog. If you want opinions, get them from humans.”
“I spy, with my little eye, something that starts with ... G." "Sausages.”

Source : Adam Rex (2013). “The True Meaning of Smekday”, p.73, A&C Black
“Unconditional gratitude is a powerful activity allowing ourselves to be grateful for whatever happens in our life.”
“He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the "guru" - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.”
“The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men, as to which of them shall be masters, and which of them slaves; a contest, that-however bloody-can, in the nature of things, never be finally closed, so long as man refuses to be a slave.”

Source : Lysander Spooner (1867). “No Treason: No. 1-”, p.9
“The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation”

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