"Driving down the wrong road and knowing it, The fork years behind, how many have thought To pull up on the shoulder and leave the car Empty, strike out across the fields; and how many Are still mazed among dock and thistle, Seeking the road they should have taken?"

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Source : Damon Knight (1986). “Man in the Tree”

Damon Knight

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“The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.”
“Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.”
“They're fighting for the championship, that's not a coincidence: I believe they have developed as a team. They've become much stronger, the squad is more balanced. And they still play the way Arsenal always play. They want to have the ball, they like playing it short, and they have outstanding individuals.”

Source : "Bayern Munich's Philipp Lahm: 'The biggest danger for us is facing Arsenal'". Interview with Raphael Honigstein, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2014.
“A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.”
“The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.”
“I mean, I hate when actors talk about how hard their job is. It's ridiculous, because we have the best job in the world.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You know what they say about bein' nice to the right people on the way up Sooner or later you gonna meet them comin' down”
“My inner rock chick has always been there. I grew up listening to a lot of rock music through my sisters, who were teenagers while I was young, so they had control of the radio.”

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