"There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring."

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Source : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.

Evelyn Beatrice Hall

#World Quotes #Goodness Quotes #Modest Quotes

“All the same it is being said everywhere that I played too softly, or rather, too delicately for people used to the piano-pounding of the artists here.”
“I never felt I was quite the ticket academically. I always felt I had to put in an enormous amount of effort not to be disappointing. So I worked really hard, but at the time it suited me, because I didn't do very much else.”
“I went out there to play my game for the fun of it and never based my career around records.”
“None can teach admirably if not loving his task.”
“Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of real music.”
“You never know when you're going to die in the show - it's kind of funny when you say that out of context, "I don't know when I'm going to die" - but you don't have time to have an ego or an attitude because you just get the chop.”
“There is no road to the land without roads.”
“There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored.”

Source : Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.48, Macmillan

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