"If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it."

-- James A. Baldwin

#Life Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Let us join Paul and declare anathema upon anyone who loves not the Lord Jesus. (I Cor 16:22)”
“Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle our impatient steps; Conducted through those labyrinths, unawares, To privileged regions and inviolate, Where from their airy lodges studious lawyers Look out on waters, walks, and gardens green.”
“I remember the initial genesis quite clearly. My interest in dreams comes from this notion of realizing that when you dream you create the world that you are perceiving, and I thought that feedback loop was pretty amazing.”
“When I was a child I truly loved: Unthinking love as calm and deep As the North Sea. But I have lived, And now I do not sleep.”

Source : John Gardner (2010). “Grendel”, p.116, Vintage
“I've got nothing against selling out, but just let me do it for something that matters. Not so I can be Number One With a Bullet, as it were, but so I can leave this world feeling like I made a difference.”
“Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.”
“A strong foe is better than a weak friend.”
“Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.”

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