"You got to take the crookeds with the straights. That's what Papa used to say."

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August Wilson

#Papa Quotes #Used Quotes

“You've got a friend in God and He's the most powerful entity the universe has ever known, the One that created it all. So, you are strong with Jesus by your side, if you just recognize it and open your heart to Him.”
“It's easier to make a reporter into an economist than an economist into a reporter.”
“Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone with a one or two-act opera without all that pompous nonsense - that was a happy reform.”
“One accumulates or one gets accumulated.”

Source : "The Worldly Philosophers". Book by Robert Heilbroner, Chapter VI, Karl Marx, p. 148, 1953.
“For the May Day is the great day, Sung along the old straight track. And those who ancient lines did ley Will heed this song that calls them back... Pass the cup, and pass the Lady, And pass the plate to all who hunger, Pass the wit of ancient wisdom, Pass the cup of crimson wonder.”
“The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.”
“I have good voice inflection, that's why I'm good on radio. But on TV, I look too big because I move my hands around a lot.”
“You cannot run a successful retail business from memory.”

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