"The swift years slip and slide adown the steep; The slow years pass; neither will come again."

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Source : William Sharp (2015). “The Washer of the Ford: Legendary Moralities and Barbaric Tales”, p.177, Library of Alexandria

William Sharp

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“All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.”
“Plato, the first true pope of philosophy (sorry, Socrates), argued for a World of Forms above the reality-a transcendent plane of perfect essences, pure and lovely, where nothing ever gets muddy (including the essence of mud.)”
“The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.”
“If the Japanese want to be taken seriously as world financial powers, they'd better quit using the same tailor as variety show chimps.”
“I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldnâ€™t have gone through and couldnâ€™t get back to the place I hadnâ€™t meant to leave.”

Source : William Maxwell, Christopher Carduff (2008). “Later novels and stories: The château, So long, see you tomorrow, stories and improvisations, 1957-1999”
“My grandmother used to cook for eight every day - sitting down lunches and dinner, the way you do it in Italy, you sit down. And when my parents could afford their own place, I went with them but still my mother used to work but used to come back from work to cook lunch for my father, come back from work, cook dinner for my father and me.”
“Tell yourself right now and throughout today, that it's okay to draw away from the maddening crowd. Jesus did; so can you.”
“Not a game, not a game... practice.”

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