"There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed but . . . in successful lives it is never wholly lacking."

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Source : "The Friendship of Art".

Bliss Carman

#Passion Quotes #Successful Quotes #Perfection Quotes

“A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.”
“It's funny, 'cause you think surfing is your whole life, but then when you make a family it seems like it's not at all.”
“I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.”
“Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.”
“I'd sit at my kitchen table and start scanning help-wanted ads on my laptop, but then a browser tab would blink and I'd get distracted and follow a link to a long magazine article about genetically modified wine grapes. Too long, actually, so I'd add it to my reading list. Then I'd follow another link to a book review. I'd add the review to my reading list, too, then download the first chapter of the bookâ€”third in a series about vampire police. Then, help-wanted ads forgotten, I'd retreat to the living room, put my laptop on my belly, and read all day. I had a lot of free time.”

Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.7, Atlantic Books Ltd
“At first, I didn't hang out with celebrity kids. That wasn't the way I was brought up. I went to a run-of-the-mill Catholic primary school when we first moved to L.A. But then I went to a high school where there were lots of 'industry' children. Those weren't my best friends and I've never set out to make myself a part of that scene.”
“Don't tell me this town 'aint got no heart”
“From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.”

Source : "Atonement". Book by Ian Mcewan, www.sfgate.com. 2001.

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