"To have memories, happy or sorrowful, is a blessing, for it shows we have lived our lives without reservation."

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Source : Tan Twan Eng (2009). “The Gift of Rain”, p.69, Weinstein Books

Tan Twan Eng

#Memories Quotes #Blessing Quotes #Reservations Quotes

“I use a laptop more as a tool, as sort of the central artery. Everything goes through the digital audio card of my computer, but if I had my druthers I'd do everything in dedicated hardware.”

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“I thought it would be nice to marry Virgil [Thomson] to have a musical background, but I never got far with the project.”
“Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.”
“From the end of the bar, the bartender threw a sidelong look at him, so Clarence pulled out a broken Bluetooth headset and fixed it to his ear. "I learned this trick while traveling with Mikey," Clarence told Nick. "Makes my brand of crazy the same as everyone else's.”
“But the witness of the substitutionary atonement of Jesus is that God's most difficult promise has been kept.”
“Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.”
“I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand youre going to have ups and downs, but you need to keep running right through them.”
“Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.”

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