"Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young."

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Source : Glenway Wescott (1940). “The pilgrim hawk: a love story”

Glenway Wescott

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“I'm Language Gal. I can speak any language presented to me. And I look exactly like Halle Berry.”

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“... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.”
“People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day. I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robbed him of his life and his horse and $150 in cash money plus two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band.”

Source : "True Grit". Book by Charles Portis, Chapter 1 (p. 9), 1968.
“The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation.”

Source : Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.339, Duke University Press
“No art is possible without a dance with death.”
“Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy.”
“I think music sharing of any kind is great.”
“I think pre-nups are brilliant. I get very well taken care of.”

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