"the long-distance run of an early morning makes me think that every run like this is a life- a little life, I know- but a life as full of misery and happiness and things happening as you can ever get really around yourself"

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Source : Alan Sillitoe (2016). “New and Collected Stories”, p.13, Open Road Media

Alan Sillitoe

#Running Quotes #Morning Quotes #Distance Quotes

“Being a classical musician I'm fascinated with how my colleagues, not just singers, but every musician finds ways to express something else or something new or the same ol', same ol' in classical music. I'm always in dialogue with other musicians at least orally, if I can't be with them and a lot of dead musicians as well. I've learned a lot from dead people on recordings.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Evil is just a point of view”
“Super-secret Ninja Club sounds way cooler than the whole BFF thing.”
“Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse Contemplation She plumes her feathers and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' th' centre and enjoy bright day; But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the midday sun.”
“I can't be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn't want to be.”
“The biggest thing, and what I told some of the partners in the summit, was me thanking them for their constant support with everything that I've been through the last couple years on and off the court.”
“The infantryman slithers in the mud, while many teams of horses are needed to drag each gun forward. All wheeled vehicles sink up to their axles in the slime. Even tractors can only move with great difficulty. A large portion of our heavy artillery was soon stuck fast... The strain that all this caused our already exhausted troops can perhaps be imagined.”
“I hope the film will help mothers and fathers to be aware that 15 is a very vulnerable age.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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