"I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true."

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Source : Wally Lamb (1998). “I Know This Much Is True”, p.897, Cambridge University Press

Wally Lamb

#Country Quotes #Dog Quotes #Smart Quotes

“If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.”
“The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships. . . it seems safe to say that such ideas are wholly visionary and even if the machine could get across with one or two passengers the expense would be prohibitive to any but the capitalist who could use his own yacht.”
“Donâ€™t wait for people to be kind, show them how.”
“When you are too old to play golf, you had better die.”
“The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.”
“The first thing a writer has to do is find a new source of income.”

Source : Ellen Gilchrist (2013). “Falling Through Space”, p.107, Open Road Media
“I've got an overactive, analytical brain. I get frustrated, impatient, angry with myself. I swear at myself a lot.”

Source : "I've an overactive brain". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2008.
“Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.”

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