"No one expected me. Everything awaited me."

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Source : Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.25, A&C Black

#Expected Quotes

“There is more power in a mother's hand than in a king's scepter.”
“I have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I go for it for an hour.”
“But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our symphonies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted into battlefields; our dreams however rarely they may be accomplished. The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.”

Source : ROBERT ARDREY (1961). “AFRICAN GENISIS”
“The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: "He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do.”
“I feel myself shriveling along with my world, getting smaller and harder. I'm turning into a rock, and in some ways that's good, because rocks last forever. But if this is how I'm going to last forever, then I don't want to.”

Source : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.197, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Love affair. Doesn't that sound so middle-aged? And also ill-fated. Like ill-fated is an understood prefix to love affair. Well, ill-fated is fine, as long as it's a meaty and fraught ill-fated love affair, not a pale and insipid one.”
“Every man and woman who serves the Lord, no matter how faithful they may be, have their dark hours; but if they have lived faithfully, light will burst upon them and relief will be furnished.”
“Your business will look totally different from your customer's viewpoint, so jump the counter and start to see things from their perspective.”

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