"I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself."

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Source : Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”

Marguerite Yourcenar

#Wisdom Quotes #Routine Quotes #Faces Quotes

“Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.”
“As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.”
“Being able to help, being able to go out there every five games, is definitely something I was waiting for.”
“I think that it would be more true to life, true to the Bible. I wouldn't have a problem with a black man playing Jesus. Being born in that part of the world, he would be more close to being black than white anyway. Although what he did transcended all races.”
“Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.”
“I don't really care if my clothes are wrinkled or there's a stain on my shirt. Going out on the road, your clothes are dirty.”
“Nothing makes you feel more stupid than finding out you were wrong when you thought you were loved.”

Source : A.L. Kennedy (2010). “Night Geometry And The Garscadden Trains”, p.20, Random House
“I'm not scared at all... Of the cracks in the crystal ball.”

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