"No man can be stronger than his destiny."

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Source : Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.24, Rutgers University Press

Mary Hunter Austin

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“So upright Quakers please both man and God.”
“We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.”

Source : Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.226, Simon and Schuster
“Maybe that whole love thing is just a grown-up version of Santa Claus; just a myth we've been fed since childhood. So, we keep buying magazines, joining clubs, and doing therapy and watching movies with hit pop songs played over love montages all in a pathetic attempt to explain why our love Santa keeps getting caught in the chimney.”
“All women are feminists, whether they know it or not.”
“I have my romantic moments - for sure.”
“The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I known such pain was in the next room, and had it been dumb, I believeâ€”I have thought sinceâ€”I could have stood it well enough. It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. But in spite of the brilliant sunlight and the green fans of the trees waving in the soothing sea-breeze, the world was a confusion, blurred with drifting black and red phantasms, until I was out of earshot of the house in the stone wall.”
“Right now Iâ€™m inspired to fight for the honour of my country.”
“I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.”

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