"It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment."

-- Ellen Glasgow

#Disappointment Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.”
“Better to be quirky alone than unhappy together.”
“Forgiveness is its own reward.”
“It is very difficult to follow your own method all the time because you may crash against some directors who want from you something different. Trying to understand the material, who you're working with, and how can you fit in there. That is my approach.”
“Coming into the business, you'd pass through these little agencies until you got to understand what was happening in the business, unless you were really able to have a style strong enough to go directly to the publishers.”
“Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and not merely contrary notions. There is no such thing as a mixed economy, a system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.”
“The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.”
“I don't know when the word fashion came into being, but it was an evil day. For thousands of years people got along with something called style and maybe, in another thousand, we'll go back to it.”

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