"Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature."

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Source : Stephen Crane (2016). “The Open Boat and Other Stories”, p.27, Lulu.com

Stephen Crane

#Finals Quotes #Individual Quotes #Phenomenon Quotes

“Many children grow through adolescence with no ripples whatever and land smoothly and predictably in the adult world with both feet on the ground. Some who have stumbled and bumbled through childhood suddenly burst into bloom. Most shake, steady themselves, zigzag, fight, retreat, pick up, take new bearings, and finally find their own true balance.”
“When I started writing again, especially when I listened to French music and Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, I realized that these lots talked about themselves. The greatest artists, they didn't sing; they only spoke.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Actually, scientists don't know exactly how lice jumped from gorillas to our human ancestors. They speculate that we may have eaten them or perhaps slept in their nests.”
“Change happened and you thought it was forever, and immediately there were all the enemies of that change making common cause and meeting in the cloakrooms.”

Source : C. J. Cherryh (1992). “Chanur's Legacy: A Novel of Compact Space”, DAW Hardcover
“I just think make hay while the sun shines really when you're an actor. When the opportunities present themselves you just better take them, otherwise you just don't know.”
“A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once.”

Source : "Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto" by Johnny Minkley, www.eurogamer.net. March 31, 2010.
“There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.”
“For sure it's better to have a coach. I won't lie to you. It's better to have someone to help you. I need it, you know. But as I say all the time, it's not easy to feel someone. That person has to be - has to be, for me, like good, first of all, but has to be hard and also understand my personality.”

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