"People like to think the younger generation's job is to steer the world to hell. But it's never true, is it? They're hopeful and good - and that's how it should be."

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Source : Elizabeth Strout (2008). “Olive Kitteridge: Fiction”, p.80, Random House

Elizabeth Strout

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“Just in case the world ends tomorrow," she said. "We might as well enjoy today.”

Source : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“When you are tempted to look elsewhere for greener pastures, just remember someone else is probably looking at yours. And if another pasture looks greener, perhaps it is getting better care and attention. Grass is always greener . . . where it is watered.”
“I've had to deal with everything but everyone has helped me, including Sir Alex Ferguson, to get through. George Best was a good friend of mine. We loved each other, we both knew where we were coming from.”
“The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take to reading as better men take to drink. They fly through the shires of literature on a motor-car, their sole object being motion. They will tell you how many books they have read in a year. Unless you give at least 45 minutes to careful, fatiguing reflection (it is an awful bore at first) upon what you are reading, your 90 minutes of a night are chiefly wasted.”

Source : Arnold Bennett (2013). “How To Live On Twenty-Four Hours A Day”, p.40, Read Books Ltd
“I think probably the one trait that would concern me about brother Bing would be his lack of responsibility.”
“I think it was just part of the storyline [in CSI: Miami] and the producer called me beforehand and said, 'Listen, I am going to kind of do something with your character that looks like she might get fired, but I just want to reassure you that we're going to have you back,' and I thought, 'Oh god, I hope that is true.'”
“Mysticism—Magic and Yoga—is the means, therefore, to a new universal life, richer, greater and more full of resource than ever before, as free as sunlight, as gracious as the unfolding of a rose. It is for man (and woman) to take.”

Source : Israel Regardie (1972). “The Tree of Life: A Study in Magic”, p.34, Weiser Books
“Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.”

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