"I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened."

--

Katherine Paterson

“I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house,”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I want to pave my own path artistically.”
“The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.”

Source : Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (2009). “The Complete Collected Works of Dr. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (Hardcover Edition)”, p.456, Seed of Life Publishing
“If you pay peanuts, you wind up hiring monkeys.”
“Im 36, but I still feel like a punk kid with $200 in my savings account.”
“We're not as materialistic and income-tax conscious as we think. At the moment our superstitions are tucked away, but come out sometimes in strange ways sex crimes, black masses.”
“I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”
“What is the cost of not daring? What is the cost of not trying?”

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