"When we travel we find how greatly our boyhood dreams are outstripped by reality ."

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Source : "Space Chantey" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 1), 1968.

R. A. Lafferty

#Dream Quotes #Reality Quotes #Boyhood Quotes

“I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.”

Source : E. Nesbit (2013). “Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit”, p.23, Delphi Classics
“To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.”
“I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.”
“There is a worse tyranny than that of ill-treatment. It is the tyranny of tears, vapours, appeals to feelings of affection and of gratitude!”
“Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.”
“When I was in high school, I ran hurdles, but I was really short, so I'd barely clear them. I was pretty quick, but I had little legs, so I had to take 50 steps in between each hurdle.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.”

Source : "Why Bad Science Is Like Bad Religion" by Dr Rupert Sheldrake, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2012.
“Sometimes, I feel promoting a film is a more difficult task than acting!”

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