"The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo."

-- Alan Hollinghurst

#Great Wisdom Quotes #Tempo Quotes

“Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.”
“I work only with lost and founds.”

Source : Clarice Lispector (1989). “Agua Viva”, p.59, U of Minnesota Press
“Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.”
“Whether considered as a doctrine, or as an historical fact, or as a movemement, socialism, if it really remains socialism, cannotbe brought into harmony with the dogmas of the Catholic church.... Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.”
“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.”
“There are so many different elements to surfing. Small waves, big waves, long boards, short boards. This makes it a sport you can share with people. It's not just a solitary thing - it's become a family thing, too. It's about exercising and passing something on from father to son, and from mother to daughter.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I love nature and enjoy learning new skills.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.”

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