"That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings."

-- Alice Munro

#Thinking Quotes #Growing Quotes #Happy Endings Quotes

“The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.”
“People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.”

Source : record it. 1956 Lady Sings the Blues, with William Duffy.
“We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?”

Source : Christina Rossetti (2012). “Goblin Market and Other Poems”, p.2, Courier Corporation
“All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.”
“If you believe that God overrules all things for good, and only permits apparently evil happenings for good and the achievement of great ends unbeknown to you, then all is well. All is well because you believe in the sovereignty of God.”
“Makeup is my world, and I know that a little things . . . the right technique, colour or brush . . . can make all the difference.”
“The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.”
“Anyone who has grown up in Delhi knows it's horrible.”

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