"Life passes into pages if it passes into anything,"

-- James Salter

“You plant twenty coconut trees over here, and twenty coconut trees over there, and you water this batch and don't water that batch. Of the batch you water, nineteen will survive and one will die. Of the batch you don't water, nineteen will die and one will survive.”
“The thing we adore about these dog-whistle kerfuffles is that the people who react to the whistle always assume it's intended for somebody else. The whole point of the metaphor is that if you can hear the whistle, you're the dog.”
“I love working in New Zealand. It's just the most beautiful country I've ever been to.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.”
“I hope I will have achieved something lasting.”
“Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.”
“Failure is never a reason not to try again.”

Source : Martha Albrand (1950). “Wait for the Dawn”
“With peaks of joy and valleys of heartache, life is a roller coaster ride that's both scary and exciting at the same time - the rise and fall of which defines our journey.”

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