"Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits."

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Source : Quoted in A H Franks (ed) Pavlova: A Biography,'Pages of My Life' (1956).

Anna Pavlova

#Giving Quotes #Wish Quotes #Finding Happiness Quotes

“I see the horizon. A light blue, a beautiful band. This is the Earth. How beautiful it is! All goes well.”
“A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony and ecstasy. But for the idealist, it is only the beginning.”
“Among artists without talent Marxism will always be popular, since it enables them to blame society for the fact that nobody wants to hear what they have to say.”

Source : Clive James (2015). “The Crystal Bucket”, p.87, Pan Macmillan
“I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.”

Source : Dashiell Hammett (2010). “The Maltese Falcon”, p.61, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
“The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us.”
“I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me.”
“I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.”
“If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.”

Source : Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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