"The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's patience had turned to active impatience."

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Source : Robert Rawls Updegraff (1958). “All the time you need: the greatest gift in the world”

Robert Updegraff

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“If I don't have anything to sacrifice, I don't have anything to gain. From the Bible I have learned if you want something good, you must sacrifice.”
“At some point, don't voters start to see all of public life as one big polluted river? And if they do, don't they stop saying things like "That's a busted tire floating by" and "That's an old shoe"?”
“When you're doing a play and you're afraid of a scene, that's the scene you should embrace, because that's the scene that will tell you something about the play.”
“I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.”
“Perverseness is your whole defence.”
“Though opposition is a hopeless task, acquiescence would be worse.”
“The European boys have small ideas but they sure know how to dress 'em up.”
“The word "miss" is so wistful. As is the word "wistful," for that matter. They both have sighs embedded in them, that "iss" sound. Which also sounds like if.”

Source : Joan Wickersham (2008). “The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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