"The last time you're doing something - knowing you're doing it for the last - makes it even more alive than the first."

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Source : Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.224, Open Road Media

Gloria Naylor

#Knowing Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.”
“And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.”
“We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years. We're told cars should be replaced with mass transportation. But it's hard to reach the drive-through window at McDonald's from a speeding train. And we're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine?”
“individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur ...”

Source : Elizabeth Janeway (1981). “Powers of the weak”, William Morrow & Co
“I can see that you're in love, but only in a very narrow sense. It's the love of someone that finds charms and qualities in a woman that she doesn't actually have, who puts her in a class apart with every one else in second place, and who stays attached to her even while he's abusing her.”
“Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and worthless, or that I was pretty much a success, and everything I did was bound to succeed. When I was confident, I could overcome the hardest challenges. But all it took was the smallest setback for me to be sure that I was utterly worthless. Regaining my self-confidence had nothing to do with success...whether I experienced it as a failure or triumph was utterly dependent on my mood.”

Source : Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.67, Vintage
“Disappear, she says. I love that word.”
“You can't blame a match for a house made of straw, Alek.”

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