"What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!"

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Source : Robert Harris (2006). “Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

Robert Harris

#Careers Quotes #Political Quotes #Ashes Quotes

“Actually it broke my heart to hear that we were going to have to part ways, ... It's a business and they had to do what they had to do.”
“Lizzy, Will thought. Lizzy P. 'You n me gonna be buddies, darlin'. He stretched one hand to Elly's hair, and circled Donald Wade's rump with his free arm and touched Thomas's leg, on the far side of Elly. And he smiled at Lizzy P. and thought, Heaven's got nothin' on being the husband of Eleanor Dinsmore.”
“A lot of my own problems are because I'm so financially irresponsible. I'm so stupid when it comes to money. And I'm ashamed of it.”

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“I am equally excited about the possibilities that music making holds for all people and it's ability to heal what seems to me a chronic imbalance in modern life.”
“It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.”
“Toil on, son, and do not lose heart or hope. Let nothing you dismay. You are not utterly forsaken. I, too, am here--here in the darkness waiting, here attentive, here approving of your labor and your dream.”

Source : Thomas Wolfe (2016). “You Can't Go Home Again”, p.524, Thomas Wolfe
“Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.”

Source : "The Twentieth Century". Book by Caroline Farrar Ware, 1972.
“we never know the blessings bestowed on us until we are separated from the possession of them.”

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