"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."

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Source : Christopher Morley (2015). “Parnassus On Wheels”, p.75, Booklassic

Christopher Morley

#Inspirational Quotes #Success Quotes #Good Life Quotes

“For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a centering principle, and mine is this: that I will pay close attention to this world I find myself in. 'My heart keeps open house,' was the way the poet Theodore Roethke put it in a poem. And rendering in language what one sees through the opened windows and doors of that house is a way of bearing witness to the mystery of what it is to be alive in this world.”
“Michael Winter’s fiction is a lot like hearing him talk about his life… harrowing in an after-the-fact hilarious way. Full of wonder and mystery. A hangover you wouldn’t miss for the world.”
“Politicians are masters of sounding like they agree with you.”
“The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.”
“I think being on a film set for such a long time made me a technical actor without realizing it.”
“Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope.”
“English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with which it has precious little in common.”
“I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.”

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