"There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat. A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour. It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did."

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Source : George Jones (2014). “I Lived to Tell It All”, p.140, Dell

George Jones

#Taken Quotes #Keys Quotes #Half Quotes

“Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.”

Source : Song: Diamonds and Gold, Album: Rain Dogs
“I think a good director is a good listener.”

Source : "INTERVIEW | 'Incendies' Director Denis Villeneuve: 'I think a good director is a good listener'". Interview with Brian Brooks, www.indiewire.com. April 22, 2011.
“Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error or excess.”

Source : Diana Trilling (1981). “Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor”, Harcourt
“Sure, but competition is good for the user.”
“A serious life, by definition, is a life one reflects on, a life one tries to make sense of and bear witness to. Truth in a memoir is achieved not through a recital of actual events; it is achieved when the reader comes to believe that the writer is working hard to engage with the experience at hand. What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened.”
“You can do something that walks a line, and invariably, whatever that line is, it will be crossed by people who don't know any better and want to ape the success.”
“I think it's a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger.”
“[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence of somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age and sickness.”

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