"I was trying to cheat death. I was only trying to surmount for a little while the darkness that all my life I surely knew was going to come rolling in on me some day and obliterate me. I was only to stay alive a little brief while longer, after I was already gone."

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Source : Cornell Woolrich, Francis M. Nevins (2005). “Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories”, p.22, Carroll & Graf

Cornell Woolrich

#Darkness Quotes #Trying Quotes #Rolling Quotes

“Every economic...acti on must set about providing each inhabitant of the planet with the minimum wherewithal to live in dignity and freedom, with the possibility of supporting a family, educating children, praising God and developing one's own human potential.”
“The only difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is extraordinary determination.”
“I'd write over and over, 'I will not throw into coverage.'”
“I am gay. I am proud. And God loves me without reservation.”

Source : Mel White (2015). “STRANGER AT THE GATE”, p.308, Simon and Schuster
“Pass that thing, slightly, lightly and politely.”
“We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.”
“Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.”
“You... and only you choose your thoughts.”

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