"Facts are fine, fer as they go ... but they're like water bugs skittering atop the water. Legends, now - they go deep down and bring up the heart of a story."

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Source : Marguerite Henry (2012). “Misty of Chincoteague”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

Marguerite Henry

#Heart Quotes #Water Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward.”
“If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.”
“I keep a diary when I have time to. I always know that I'm either having a great time or I'm very busy when there are three weeks of nothing in my diary. But I like to look back because in ten years to the day I can know where I was and what I was doing, and that's a nice feeling.”
“May we all be faithful in doing the day-to-day, ordinary things that prove our worthiness, for they will lead us to and qualify us for great things.”
“Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.”

Source : Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.145, Simon and Schuster
“The one constant in life is baseball”
“In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.”
“Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn a woman in half. I reply, Oh, yes I've sawn over seventy women in half in my lifetime, and I'm learning the second half of the trick now.”

Source : Raymond Smullyan (1983). “Five Thousand B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies”, p.31, Macmillan

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