"A combination of all that was best in the gladdest days of the departing year..."

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Source : Shelby Foote (1963). “The Civil War: a narrative”

Shelby Foote

#Happiness Quotes #Success Quotes #Years Quotes

“It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own kind should lead them to the subjection of whole groups of other people not like them.”
“I like having a plot, I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.”

Source : "The unvarnished truth". Interview with Peter Craven, www.theaustralian.com.au. October 3, 2009.
“I get all excited when I think that someone's 1-900 sex call from a cell phone might be passing through my body right now.”
“Make certain decisions only once . . . We can make a single decision about certain things that we will incorporate in our lives and then make them ours - without having to brood and re-decide a hundred times what it is we will do and what we will not do.”
“Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.”
“I just wanted to say things that women wanted to say, but were afraid to.”
“You know, it's kind of hard because I really - I see kids on their Rollerblades and their bikes, and just running around, climbing trees, and I used to do that. And I loved doing that.”
“Jesse, who had not stirred the whole time from the spot he'd been standing, confident I could handle Cheryl myself, was grinning. "It's every girl's dream to guy to go to prom with the guy she loves?" he echoed, not just one, but both inky black eyebrows raised. "Don't start with me," I said. I tried to hide my suddenly flaming cheeks by scraping away what was left of the cannolis, and replacing them with the contents of an upended bag of chocolate chip cookies. "I have things to do.”

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