"One of the most helpful things that any body can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world."

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Source : Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart

Edwin Lefevre

#Giving Up Quotes #Two Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I don't know that 'NCIS: Los Angeles' is a complete reinvention, but I'm playing one of the guys in charge this time. Before I'd be cast as a young impressionable character. I think part of that is just being more mature.”
“I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily.”
“Everyone has the right to tell the truth about her own life.”
“As we enter into exquisite awareness of the life that want to live as us, we learn to love deeply. - We claim our passion.”
“I’m sure a lot of you have tripped out on alcohol. It’s a lot safer to do it on marijuana”
“I speak as an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle. I have not yet given up on the idea that the experience of literature offers a kind of wisdom that cannot be discovered elsewhere; that there is profundity in the verbal encounter itself, never mind what further profundities that author has to offer; and that for a host of reasons the bound book is the ideal vehicle for the written word.”

Source : Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.13, Macmillan
“Why would they have book covers if we aren't supposed to judge the book by them? It makes no sense.”
“We're often told that we live in a globalized world, and we talk about it all the time, but people don't stop to think about what it means.”

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