"If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that's lost, there is usually something gained."

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Source : Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

Merle Shain

#Land Quotes #Lost Quotes #Beginnings And Endings Quotes

“The force of union conquers all.”
“And they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express. "Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the little prince. "They are pursuing nothing at all," said the switchman. "They are asleep in there, or if they are not asleep they are yawning. Only the children are flattening their noses against the windowpanes." "Only the children know what they are looking for," said the little prince. "They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry..." "They are lucky," the switchman said.”
“Sometimes you don't get but one mistake, if the one you pick is bad enough.”

Source : Madison Smartt Bell (1991). “Barking Man and Other Stories”, Penguin Group USA
“The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.”
“When you're on your own you have control over most of the variables involved in the preparation and the race itself, whilst in a team event you are only a part of the overall picture. The real upside of being part of a team is the fact that when you're successful in a race you can share the celebrations together.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“However we pass Time, he passes still, Passing away whatever the pastime, And, whether we use him well or ill, Some day he gives us the slip for the last time.”
“Everything I needed was in my car, even the chickens”
“I can walk into someone's house, kiss their wife, sit down at their table, and eat their dinner. I can lift a passport at an airport, and in twenty minutes it will seem like it's mine. I can be a blackbird staring in the window. I can be a cat creeping along a ledge. I can go anywhere I want and do the worst things I can imagine, with nothing to ever connect me to those crimes. Today I look like me, but tomorrow I could look like you. I could be you.”

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