"It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on."

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Source : Carol Anshaw, Merrill Maguire Skaggs (2012). “Aquamarine”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Carol Anshaw

#Plot Lines Quotes #Stories Quotes #Easy Quotes

“I took up knitting from time to time as a relaxation, but I always put it down again before going out to buy a rocking chair.”
“Talent borrows, genius steals!”
“Health is more than the mere absence of disease, itâ€™s the presence of a superior state of well being, a pizzazz, a vitality that has to be worked for each and every day of your life. You cannot get it in a bottle or from Dr. Phil.Â Its got to be gotten through diet and execise and rest and recreation and attitudes of mind working all together every day of your life and then, young men can become supermen and old men can become olderâ€¦”
“In one way an oil boom is a mighty bad thing, because it gets into your blood and almost becomes an obsession. Booms are filled with excitement, adventure, and drama, but sometimes the exit from the scene must be made between suns on a pair of mighty weary feet.”
“Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?”

Source : James Branch Cabell (2013). “The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection”, eBookIt.com
“If there's one thing that the Web has changed about modern communication, it's that we've at long last done away with the archaic idea that publishing is the private playground of people who have ideas, experiences, and opinions.”
“Turn in upon yourselves, get into your closets, and now resolve to dwell there. You have been strangers to this work too long; you have kept other vineyards too long; you have trifled about the borders of religion too long. Will you now resolve to look better to your hearts? Will you hate and come out of the crowds of business and clamors of the world and retire yourselves more than you have done? Oh, that this day you would resolve upon it!”
“Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.”

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