"Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!"

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Source : Phyllis Bottome (1998). “Old Wine: A Novel”, p.221, Northwestern University Press

Phyllis Bottome

#Wall Quotes #Real Quotes #Past Quotes

“for every person who's stepped out of line and lived to regret it, there are two people who stayed in line because they got their values mixed and lost their nerve, and who have lived to regret it still more. You don't hear about those people because they're still in line where they don't show.”
“It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.”
“We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.”
“Nothing can happen if it's not first a dream. If you have someone with a dream, if you have a motivated person with a goal and a vision, if you have someone that never gives up, who has great hope, Anything can happen.”
“The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.”
“I can't compare family to athletics.”
“I don't think it negates your skills as a parent if you're homosexual.”
“I am not and should not be considered an economist.”

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