"It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment."

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Source : Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.19, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Jeanette Winterson

#Second Chance Quotes #Remember Quotes #Moments Quotes

“As time passes, my story fades away.”
“Success doesn't have a downside for me. I'm busy, but I've always been busy whatever job I've had. My very first job working in a furniture factory was bloody busy! That's just modern life. It's not a downside, you just have to be organised and keep things in perspective.”
“Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.”
“Music didn't really occur to me. Michael Jordan and Batman were my favorite two entities then. Michael Jackson was there, but I didn't really get into Bob Dylan, for instance, until I was in my 20s. The record I heard of his that got me interested in singing was Knocked Out Loaded, which is what many people consider to be his worst record.”
“It is exciting to discover electrons and figure out the equations that govern their movement; it is boring to use those principles to design electric can openers. From here on out, it's all can openers.”
“I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.”
“If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I know it sounds silly, but disrespecting a dead writer by sitting in a chair that probably never belonged to him still felt like a risk to me. So I chickened out.”

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