"We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date."

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Source : Ali Smith (2015). “Hotel World”, p.104, Penguin UK

Ali Smith

#Years Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Important Quotes

“You give the money where you want it.”
“The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.”

Source : Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”
“I'm just really a lazy homebody.”
“I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.”
“The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.”

Source : Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898). “So Runs the World”, London : F. T. Neely
“Reticences are as revealing as avowals.”
“It's really easy to play harmonics, anyone can do it. It's another thing to be able to swing, to make to make a band swing, to create a groove. Harmonics ain't everything. Being able to play harmonics certainly does not make you a good bass player. Cleverness is no substitute for true awareness.”
“If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.”

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