"Life was a fool's errand, carrying news to the worms."

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Source : Kylie Tennant (1968). “Lost Haven”

Kylie Tennant

#Life Quotes #News Quotes #Errands Quotes

“One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.”
“Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. Â… But freedom in old age is the ability to be the best of the self I have developed during all those years.”
“When I was growing up I always wanted to be a waitress. My sister opened a restaurant in Mississippi, and I went down there and was a waitress for a few days. Let me tell you, I got it out of my system.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.”

Source : Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 1”, p.125, Reprint Services Corporation
“Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.”
“Wedlock's like wine - not properly judged of till the second glass.”
“We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.”

Source : Harry Kalven, Learned Hand (1967). “The Supreme Court as legislator: the contribution of an independent judiciary to civilization : an address”
“No, I don't suppose I'm so much a collector sort of person.”

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