"Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time."

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Source : James Crumley (2016). “The Last Good Kiss”, p.63, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

James Crumley

#Kings Quotes #And Love Quotes #Youth Quotes

“Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school. For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.”
“Death is the road to awe.”

Source : "Fictional character: Lord of Xibalba". "The Fountain", www.imdb.com. 2006.
“How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us?”

Source : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.207, Rowman & Littlefield
“Train insane or remain the same.”
“...Humans were the only creatures in the world that ate their food cooked. You'd never find a Gorilla frying up some bananas for dinner or a lion charcoal-broiling a zebra steak. Cats don't often run to the oven with a mouse or bird they've captured, and a dog wouldn't naturally prepare its rabbit dinner in a stew.”
“The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.”

Source : Douglas Kennedy (2010). “The Pursuit of Happiness: A Novel”, p.78, Simon and Schuster
“Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.”

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