"It's funny, but... you're sort of a moving target for fortune, and you never know when it will befall you."

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Thomas McGuane

#Moving Quotes #Target Quotes #Fortune Quotes

“Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.”
“I have to be by myself when I write, and I never know how long it will take. It is like making butter. Sometimes it will come in a few minutes, and sometimes I have to churn away for hours.”

Source : Annie Fellows Johnston (1901). “The Little Colonel's House Party”, p.183, Pelican Publishing
“If there is anyone who's living the work of the New Testament, it's the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy.”
“I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear.”
“Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.”
“Gardening has a magical quality when you are a child.”

Source : Barbara Damrosch (1982). “Theme Gardens”, Workman Publishing Company
“I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored.”
“A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry, and only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours.”

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