"I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass."

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Source : Jim Harrison, Robert J. DeMott (2002). “Conversations with Jim Harrison”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Jim Harrison

#Disappointment Quotes #Giving Quotes #Risk Quotes

“I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.”
“It is your own habits of thinking which give you mastery in any field of achievement”
“If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.”
“She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.”
“Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.”

Source : Lord Dunsany (2015). “The Book of Wonder”, Simon and Schuster
“My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.”
“Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.”

Source : William Ellery Channing (1835). “The works of Wm. Ellery Channing ...”, p.285
“Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.”

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