"You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness."

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Source : Sarah Manguso (2009). “The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir”, p.191, Macmillan

Sarah Manguso

#Moving Quotes #Guessing Quotes #Brightness Quotes

“There's a lot of sensuality that I associate with travel. And that's romance.”
“No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity.”
“Climate change is my greatest concern.”
“For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.”
“I think wardrobe is a really important part of making a movie and developing the character.”

Source : "Elisha Cuthbert gets a change of wardrobe". Interview, www.today.com. April 8, 2004.
“He's been breaking Olympic records like ninepins”
“It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.”
“How do you turn the invisible into the visible? The first step is to define your dream precisely; the only limit to what you can achieve is the extent of your ability to define with precision that which you desire.”

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