"If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station."

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Source : Bernard Malamud, Thomas Mallon (2003). “Dubin's Lives: A Novel”, p.87, Macmillan

Bernard Malamud

#Track Quotes #Train Quotes

“Some beach, somewhere. There's a big umbrella casting shade over an empty chair. Palm trees are growin' and a warm breeze a blowing. I picture myself right there, on some beach, somewhere.”
“If I were you boys, I wouldn't talk or even think about women. It ain't good for your health.”

Source : "Fictional character: Howard". "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", 1948.
“We want to follow a dream, yes it's true, but it's one thing to follow a dream and another to follow an obsession...A dream is more pure than obsession. A dream is about pride.”

Source : "FC Porto foi a melhor equipa que já treinei". expresso.sapo.pt. March 23, 2009.
“All effective actions require the passport of morality.”
“Confidence in oneself stems from the trust one has in knowledge.”
“Pinetop could find the cracks and fill them in and be the glue and mortar of the whole band.”
“Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.”

Source : James Branch Cabell (2001). “The Cream of the Jest”, p.9, Wildside Press LLC
“My biggest pet peeve is inconsiderate people.”

Source : "Trista Sutter from The Bachelorette: Spreading the Gift of Gratitude". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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