"When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable."

-- W. Somerset Maugham

#High School Quotes #Age Quotes #Emotion Quotes

“Your tragedy is Godâ€™s opportunity to show Himself faithful.”
“Life may be miraculous in its unlikelihood in the universe, but it would be a fallacy to suggest that its rareness makes it inextinguishable.”
“A word of advice: If you get the choice between the upper and lower bunks in a cell, choose the lower. Prisons do not turn off their lights at night, and I spent a sleepless night, without a mattress, with a five-hundred-watt bulb shining directly into my eyes.”

Source : "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, "Postscript", p. 157, 1971.
“It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.”
“A book , once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in parturition a child is cut off from its parent. The book "means" thereafter, perforce, both grammatically and actually, whatever meaning this or that reader gets out of it.”

Source : James Branch Cabell (1930). “The Works of James Branch Cabell: Towsend of Lichfield”
“I have learnt that all our theories are not Truth itself, but resting places or stages on the way to the conquest of Truth, and that we must be contented to have obtained for the strivers after Truth such a resting place which, if it is on a mountain, permits us to view the provinces already won and those still to be conquered.”
“Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying”
“Learning as we go... Why didn't they tell us this before? We, the consumers, are supposed to be docile guinea pigs in a vast but uncontrolled experiment with powerful hormones (HRT). That's quite a commentary on "scientific medicine".”

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