"I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given."

-- Bryce Courtenay

#People Quotes #Intellectual Quotes #Brain Quotes

“Whenever we remember a series of events, we remember them different. We are constantly changing. It's a flaw, but on the other hand, when we say a word, the meaning is not what you put into it. Rather, the meaning of the word is all of the past usages of that word. Like this cloud that makes up the meaning of the word. It's your subject if you write. For instance what you put in that word and what you assume it means, even its flaw. It has a general agreement.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“We don't always get what we deserve," she replied, patting James over his heart. "Sometimes we get more; sometimes we get less. At least we get something.”

Source : Kate Jacobs (2008). “The Friday Night Knitting Club”, p.329, Penguin
“The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case.”
“The father is the sun, the mother is the moon and the light they mutually shed on their kids makes them bright stars against a very dark night.”
“I saw the charter as an expression of my long-held view that the subject of law must be the individual human being; the law must permit the individual to fulfil himself or herself to the utmost.”
“The dream of coming back is becoming a reality. A lot of the uncertainty about the future has been cleared up. A lot of people are no longer cursing the darkness and have started lighting candles and doing positive things.”
“You look for one thing and you find another.”

Source : Muriel Spark (2014). “Memento Mori”, p.131, New Directions Publishing
“I never set out to do anything unusual or newsworthy. I just like to study and learn, and I've always been that way.”

Source : Source: www.mybestyears.com

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