"No is always a door-closing word; Yes is a door-opening word."

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Thomas Dreier

#Doors Quotes #Opening Quotes #Closing Quotes

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”
“We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.”
“The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.”

Source : T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.203, Penguin
“Many authors write like amateur blacksmiths making their first horseshoe; the clank of the anvil, the stench of the scorched leather apron, the sparks and the cursing are palpable, and this appeals to those who rank "sincerity" very high. Nabokov is more like a master swordsmith making a fine blade; nothing is amiss, nothing is too much, there is no fuss, and the finished product must be handled with great care, or it will cut you badly.”
“I'm contemplating thinking about thinking...but....it's overrated - just get another drink in!”
“God won't let me into heaven because I'm too evil.”
“Another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of Apollo. Lunar exploration was not the equivalent of an American pyramid, some idle monument to technology, but more of a Rosetta stone, a key to unlocking dreams as yet undreamed.”
“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”

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