"We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for."

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#Patience Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“How many of my basic principles were upset by this change in my attitude toward the Christian Social movement! My views with regard to anti-Semitism thus succumbed to the passage of time, and this was my greatest transformation of all.”
“So far as good writing goes, the use of the exclamation mark is a sign of failure. It is the literary equivalent of a man holding up a card reading LAUGHTER to a studio audience.”
“Don't go looking in dark places, because dark things live there.”

Source : Robin Wasserman (2013). “The Waking Dark”, p.83, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“Against the sustained tick of a watch, fiction takes the measure of a life, a season, a look exchanged, the turning point, desire as brief as a dream, the grief and terror that after childhood we cease to express.”
“Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.”
“There's nothing like it, but it's not as good as you think it's going to be. . . . I was disappointed because there are records of people finding things that have been there for years. I was hoping for a shirt button, or my club's badge - but not a sausage.”
“When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.”
“Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle - the results can be really interesting.”

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