"... it isn't in my nature to cry for very long. It is one of the blessings of my life that things that are past -- are past. Yesterday's calamities are merely today's challenge. I can get down -- but I can't stay there."

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Source : Louella Oettinger Parsons (1944). “The Gay Illiterate”

Louella Parsons

#Blessing Quotes #Past Quotes #Yesterday Quotes

“The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates once admitted it, just as Voltaire admitted it.”
“O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?”
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“Happiness doesn't come from getting what you want. It doesn't come from within, either. Happiness comes from *between*--from finding the right relationship between yourself and others, between yourself and your work, and between yourself and something larger than yourself.”
“I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.”
“I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.”
“Boston is known for its innovation.”
“I'm unfortunately very verbose too often.”

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