"I don't know. Sometimes I try to say what's on my mind and it comes out sounding like I ate a dictionary and I'm ***** pages. Sorry"

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Source : J. R. Moehringer (2005). “The Tender Bar: A Memoir”, p.149, Hachette UK

J. R. Moehringer

#Sorry Quotes #Writing Quotes #Mind Quotes

“What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.”

Source : Dr. Shinichi Suzuki, Waltraud Suzuki (1983). “Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education”, p.5, Alfred Music
“Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.”
“She looked at him, and oh, the weariness to her, of the effort to understand another language, the weariness of hearing him, attending to him, making out who he was, as he stood there fair-bearded and alien, looking at her. She knew something of him, of his eyes. But she could not grasp him. She closed her eyes.”
“The topic of working moms is a tap-dance recital in a minefield.”
“Fortunately, human beings are remarkably diverse models to work from”
“There is no bird flu in commercial stocks.”
“Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.”
“Maybe I'm more drawn to those kind of parts because they are meaningful to me. I mean, more parent-y ones, I find them interesting to do.”

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