"I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way."

-- Charles Van Doren

#Teaching Quotes #Writing Quotes #Work Out Quotes

“Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.”
“Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.”
“Sinatraâ€™s idea of paradise is a place where there are plenty of women and no newspapermen. He doesnâ€™t know it, but heâ€™d be better off if it were the other way around.”
“Liberty has as many chains as an iron-monger's shop, and as rusty.”
“just in case" is the curse of packing”
“A humble person never stops learning.”
“People can have rhinoceros skin, but there's a point when something's going to hurt you.”
“We were the most conservative revolutionaries in history.”

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