"You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand?"

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Source : Richard Russo (2017). “Empire Falls”, p.296, Atlantic Books

Richard Russo

#Judging Quotes #Ability Quotes #Capability Quotes

“It's hard for anyone in the 24-hour news cycles that we all live in now to follow something that the first round is played in March and the final finishes in December. I understand the challenges there.”
“I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration.”
“Get the hell out of Palestine.”
“I can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas.”
“Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets... would occupy all eastern and south-eastern Europe, together with the greater part of the [German] Reich. All over this territory, which would be of an enormous extent, an iron curtain would at once descend.”
“Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be close to your family.”
“Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable.”

Source : Nick Hornby (2003). “Songbook”, p.123, Penguin
“Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.”

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