"You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear."

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Source : Hilary Mantel (2007). “An Experiment in Love: A Novel”, p.111, Macmillan

Hilary Mantel

#Years Quotes #Long Quotes #Goes On Quotes

“Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.”
“We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?”
“The science about life is very optimistic. Every second, four people in the world die, and six are born. This is optimistic.”

Source : "To die is very strange". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. March 12, 2014.
“He's got himself, and he's got a beard. That's all Chris Jericho needs.”
“Clothes are about manipulations: how I feel, how I want to feel and how I want others to feel about me.”
“Falling is one of the ways of moving.”
“When youre a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous.”
“From the point where our ancestors started making tools, people have been unable to survive without the things they make; in this sense, it is making things that makes us human.”

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