"But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?"

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Source : Anthony Marra (2013). “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena”, p.51, Random House

Anthony Marra

#Numbers Quotes #Miracle Quotes #Quota Quotes

“I don't believe in looking past anybody - I wouldn't look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night.”
“I am deeply concerned about the kind of people Hillary Clinton's surrounded herself with in the past.”
“The Internets distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom.”
“There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.”

Source : "The world, the flesh & the devil" by Bernard Berenson, (p. 3), 1929.
“I observed that the successful farmer worked at his job. He would do his plowing, disking, harrowing, seeding, and harvesting in the proper season and at the proper time, while his neighbor was procrastinating, or off hunting and fishing while the work was still to be done. We must learn to set our priorities straight. No one can be successful in his line of work unless he works at it in the proper season and plays in the proper season.”
“I don't have a preference between theatre and film; I like to do both. But I will say that there's something about theatre that is more nourishing and sustaining than film ever can be.”
“Joe Paterno was a dictator.”
“There are massive stacks of bad choices in my backyard. Haven't finished cleaning the place up but I'm workin' on it and clearly I have not yet reached enlightenment for more than a fleeting moment but I'm tryin' and I found somethin' here I want ya to have. It's not much just a story but it's all I've got so take it.”

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