"Faith, Sir, we are here today and gone tomorrow."

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Source : 1686 The Lucky Chance, act 4.

Aphra Behn

#Death Quotes #Gone Quotes #Today Quotes

“The secret of a balanced life is to live each moment in the right spiritual frame of mind.”
“Folks say I'm egotistical. Hell, I don't even know what it means.”
“Strange priests are they who never straightly walk But all aslant through sideways passage stalk Who never seek their goals in forward lines But move askew as fraught with sly designs”
“You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.”
“The rider and the team need to understand one another and work in the same direction. Then the rider's happy, and only then will the rider be able to give 100%.”
“this year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth ...”
“At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day. Then I knew what the problem was. I needed experience. How could I write about life when I'd never had a love affair or a baby or even seen anybody die? A girl I knew had just won a prize for a short story about her adventures among the pygmies in Africa. How could I compete with that sort of thing?”
“The harsh, unyielding reality of having to compromise your ideals bit by bit, day by day, just to achieve a few little victories in the face of the worldâ€™s malice, or indifference. Until sometimes you wonder if thereâ€™s nothing left of you but the shell of the man you intended to be, just going through the motions because youâ€™ve nothing better to do.”

Source : Simon R. Green (2003). “Something from the Nightside”, p.124, Penguin

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