"With diligence it is possible to make anything run slowly."

-- Tom Duff

#Running Quotes #Diligence Quotes #Programming Quotes

“Truth never hurts the teller.”
“What we know of the world comes to us through words, or, to look at it from the other direction, when we write a sentence, we create a world, which is not the world, but the world as is appears within a dimension of assessment.”

Source : "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.
“Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad lasts for very very long.”
“Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.”
“It's sweet that I don't have to do my laundry.”
“There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.”
“I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?”
“I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.”

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