"For my part, I do not much believe in the predilections of boyhood."

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Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

James Payn

#Believe Quotes #Boyhood Quotes

“You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.”
“I've always been careful to put out the very best work I can. One of the things I value the most is the love and faith that people have given me over the years, so I try to live up to their expectations and my own standards of what I'm capable of.”
“Don't be arrogant, because arrogance kills curiosity and passion.”
“We are formed by what we desire”

Source : John Irving, Carol Anshaw, Chris Cleave, Vaddey Ratner, Enid Shomer (2012). “Simon & Schuster 2012 Fiction Sampler”, p.45, Simon and Schuster
“Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous.”
“If wits were pins, the man would be a veritable hedgehog.”

Source : Frances Hardinge (2011). “Fly By Night”, p.115, Pan Macmillan
“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
“Developing projects of my own and producing and writing and directing is something that's very interesting to me, but you know, one step at a time and you've got to establish yourself on one side before you really have the power to do something else. That's always the immediate goal.”

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