"The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems."

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Source : Samuel Lover (1843). “Handy Andy: A Tale of Irish Life”, p.356

Samuel Lover

#Winter Quotes #Looks Quotes #Might Quotes

“No one cares about the Davis Cup. How many people know I won five Davis Cups and seven majors, but that I rarely played the Australian Open?”
“I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
“It was chilling to realize that the sentimental qualities most valued between people, like loyalty, constancy, and affection, are the ones most likely to impede change.”
“I have been, earlier in my life, a lazy writer. I'd spend three hours at the gym to avoid writing, or I'd just find other distractions - reading, doing laundry, talking on the phone, etc. But suddenly I was like a laser beam: I was relentlessly focused, sometimes to the detriment of other things.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.”
“The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.”
“Although every pain has different degrees of importance, I go through all of the emotions - from crying, anger, bitterness, anxiety, etc. Feel it all. But by the end of the day, I am on my knees in prayer. The next day, I get up refreshed and begin to let it go.”
“You have to create boundaries of space and then you have to create boundaries of time.”

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