"Quite often, ambition operates on a level of irritation. Not even jealousy, just irritation."

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Geoff Dyer

#Ambition Quotes #Irritation Quotes #Levels Quotes

“It pays to trust God with all and to make no reservation.”
“When I was younger, I was always a musician that could play by ear better than I could analytically.”
“I was raised as a Catholic and received the body and blood of Jesus Christ every Sunday at communion until I was thirty years of age, when I became a vegetarian.”
“Only with winter-patience can we bring the deep-desired, long-awaited Spring.”
“I played a practice round with Hubert [Green] the other day, and when we got to the ninth green, I heard a fan say, "Why does Hubert have two caddies?"”
“We dream of the world we could have made, and wake up in the world that we did.”
“The '60s in London obviously brought about the explosion of music, the Beatles especially, and then the Rolling Stones and other forms of music, and then fashion and photography and films - kitchen-sink dramas we called them at that time, which was our nouvelle vague in Britain, films that talk about real life.”
“How silently, how silently The wonderous gift is given! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of his heaven. No ear may hear his coming, But in this world of sin, Where meek souls will receive him still, The dear Christ enters in.”

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