"Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist."

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Source : Kenneth Patchen (2008). “We Meet”, p.102, New Directions Publishing

Kenneth Patchen

#Destiny Quotes

“I'm so sorry for you; your lives have been so easy. You can't play great music unless your heart's been broken.”

Source : Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander (2002). “The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life”, p.33, Penguin
“He regarded the world-objects right in front of his face-as if from a great distance. For when he moved on the earth he also moved in other realms. In certain seasons, in certain shades, memories alighted on him like sharp-taloned birds: a head turning in the foliage, lantern light flaring in a room.”

Source : Amanda Coplin (2012). “The Orchardist: A Novel”, p.5, Harper Collins
“No athletes talk to themselves like tennis players. Pitchers, golfers, goalkeepers, they mutter to themselves, but tennis players talk to themselves-and answer. Tennis players look like lunatics in a public square.”
“The combination of extremist ideology, a warped understanding of reality and nuclear weapons is a combination that no-one in the international community can accept.”
“It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.”
“Scars are the paler pain of survival received unwillingly and displayed in the language of injury.”
“The spiritual kinship between Lincoln and Whitman was founded upon their Americanism, their essential Westernism. Whitman had grown up without much formal education; Lincoln had scarcely any education. One had become the notable poet of the day; one the orator of the Gettsyburg Address. It was inevitable that Whitman as a poet should turn with a feeling of kinship to Lincoln, and even without any association or contact feel that Lincoln was his.”
“I'm a fair manager, put it that way. I like to be fair with the players, but there's a time for discipline.”

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