"It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America."

-- Jeff Goodell

#Virginia Quotes #America Quotes #Too Late Quotes

“We must start talking differently about poverty--and start doing something differently.”
“Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.”
“But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.”
“There are so many misconceptions about me, and it gets frustrating no matter how thick skinned.”
“No, you won her over. Gave up everything for her. Maybe that's the only way to convince her you love her.”
“Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”

Source : Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.53, Dial Press
“But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening to me; and, if I stop to consider what is proper to be said to this or that person, I shall soon come to doubt whether any part at all is proper.”

Source : Thomas De Quincey (2009). “Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar”, p.107, The Floating Press
“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.”

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