"He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it."

-- Jess Walter

#Mother Quotes #Men Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“To live in a peaceful home is to experience paradise on earth”
“Some things are difficult to adapt to.”
“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.”
“I would ask that people judge us, judge me, based on our record, based on what we actually did,”
“No, my young apprentice. You said the exact right thing. Again. I'm just laughing at life." "Why?" he asked, opening both his eyes. "Because sometimes it's either laugh or cry. I prefer laugh. How about you?”
“If you think about it, candidate Obama, Sen. Obama, was running on sort of long-run economic issues, like restoring prosperity to the middle class, dealing with the perennial problem of health care in the United States. He talked a lot about the budget deficit, about the need to transition to clean energy.”
“I wouldn't go back and be 25 again for all the tea in China.”
“A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.”

Source : William Stafford (1978). “Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer's Vocation”

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