"And if you were a spirit, and time did not bind you, and patience and love were all you knew, then there you would wait for someone to return, and the story to unfold."

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Source : Mark Helprin (2012). “In Sunlight and in Shadow”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

#Waiting Quotes #Stories Quotes #Return Quotes

“Make every decisionâ€”even decisions about whether to expand the business, raise money, or promote someoneâ€”according to what's best for your customers.”
“The untalented are more at ease in a society that gives them valid alibis for not achieving than in one where opportunities are abundant. In an affluent society, the alienated who clamor for power are largely untalented people who cannot make use of the unprecedented opportunities for self-realization, and cannot escape the confrontation with an ineffectual self.”
“Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere”
“The coolest thing, and I have it at home, is a huge Hulk Hogan, normal-sized pinball machine. When people come over they play it for hours. When you hit the bumpers and the bells ring it goes, 'Oh yeah!' The whole time you're playing this machine it's yelling and screaming at you, 'What you gonna do, brother?!' I think that's the coolest.”
“I do a lot of the stuff that I started out doing that I think any guitar player that's concerned about the craft needs to do. It's basic practicing of the basic elements. I try to practice like a well rounded regiment of things where I can kind of do whatever I wanna do and I also have to practice the actual songs to keep that under my fingers as well.”
“The moment your kid's born you realize no one knows anything. No one goes to classes. You just have a kid. You can read all the books you like, but unfortunately none of our kids have read the books so they don't care. You're basically making it up as you go along.”
“Nothing symbolizes American strength and vigor more than another unaccountable Washington bureaucrat.”
“I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.”

Source : Cormac McCarthy (2011). “The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form”, p.46, Pan Macmillan

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