"And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up."

-- Jerry Garcia

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“Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you.”
“A gardener's life is full of sweets and sours; He gets the sunshine when he needs the showers.”

Source : Reginald Arkell (1938). “More Green Fingers: Another Present for a Good Gardener”
“My diary entries during this period constantly refer to the importance of learning how to take criticism. If you shut yourself in your own little world, that will be the death of your theory. On the other hand, many of the criticisms you receive are pointless and simply reflect the view that anything new is bad. In such a delicate situation it is crucial to tread gingerly and be careful to appreciate the difference between pertinent and idiotic comments.”
“Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.”
“We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.”
“Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.”
“I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.”
“Time just gets away from us.”

Source : Charles Portis (2013). “Escape Velocity”, p.262, The Overlook Press

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