"The malcontent is neither well, full nor fasting; and though he abounds with complaints, yet nothing dislikes him but the present; for what he condemns while it was, once passed, he magnifies and strives to recall it out of the jaw of time. What he hath he seeth not, his eyes are so taken up with what he wants; and what he sees he careth not for, because be cares so much for that which is not."

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Joseph Hall

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“It was heartbreaking . . . I think it was disappointing because I had such an identity in being 'Mrs. Parker', and being a wife, and so when that's taken away from you, you [think], 'Who am I?”
“My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.”
“Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.”

Source : Nadine Gordimer (1983). “Selected Stories”, Viking Press
“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”
“And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes.”
“A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.”
“Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing the universe to go on being unexplained; and we seem to need this even now, in our twentieth-century grandeur.”
“Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside.”

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