"If the past year were offered me again, And choice of good and ill before me set Would I accept the pleasure with the pain Or dare to wish that we had never met?"

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Source : Lady Gregory, Lucy McDiarmid, Maureen Waters (1995). “Selected writings”, Penguin USA

Lady Gregory

#Pain Quotes #Past Quotes #Years Quotes

“Well, at the time, we certainly regarded them [Elianor and Franklin Roosevelt] as partners. We did not know what has since come out about the difficulties of their marital life, or the problems that Franklin gave Eleanor and his mother gave Eleanor, in many respects. We didn't know much about that.”
“You cannot see me from where I look at myself”
“Don't worry, spiders, I keep house casually.”

Source : Kobayashi Issa, “Don't Worry, Spiders”
“It [Lincoln movie] had nothing to do with politics. It had nothing to do with holding a mirror up to the way we conduct our business on Capitol Hill. This was meant to be a story, a Lincoln portrait if you will. I think any time is the right time for a very compelling story, any time.”
“The less explaining you do the less people speculate.”
“To look in the face of hard things and keep moving forward - that's what one has to do.”
“All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?”
“If I could have just 1 per cent of the money spent on global armaments, no one in this world would go to bed hungry.”

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