"And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies ..."

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Source : Robert James Waller (1990). “One good road is enough: essays”, Wiley-Blackwell

Robert James Waller

#Knowledge Quotes #Gypsy Quotes #Remember Quotes

“Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.”
“To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.”
“In a sense, in the area of child care, children's relationships with parents' working has come full circle. We have gone from the mom-and-pop store (or mom-and-pop farm), with its integration of child care and work, to children-at-home and dad-at-work; to the mom-plus-daddy working at home, with its integration of childcare and work again. From mom-and-pop back to mom-and-pop.”
“Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.”
“And Nietzche, with his theory of eternal recurrence. He said that the life we lived we're going to live over again the exact same way for eternity. Great. That means I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again.”
“I think you have to be weird to swim breaststroke.”
“I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home.”
“At the root of the assault on our liberties is, in fact, an assault on our character--an assault that assumes that we are not good enough to be free, and that aims to make sure that we are no longer strong enough, courageous enough, disciplined enough to be a free people.”

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