"Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do."

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Source : Margaret Laurence (1993). “A Jest of God”, p.66, University of Chicago Press

Margaret Laurence

#Holiday Quotes #Vacation Quotes #Novelty Quotes

“It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion.”
“True joy is only hope put out of fear.”
“(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and LEAN into the curves, etc), and used a small circular needle (socks and mittens) in order to keep the knitting in her pocket until they were under way; then she leaned back slightly so Gaffer couldn't feel the movement of her hands. On the interstate one day, they were slowly passing a semi and my father happened to see the truck driver laugh and point out my mother's knitting to his passenger. Whoops-”
“I think it was fantastic being in the 49ers Hall of Fame.”
“Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me, and drink as I.”

Source : William Oldys, “On A Fly Drinking Out Of His Cup”
“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”

Source : Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books
“What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.”
“Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.”

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