"The first quarter-century of your life was doubtless lived under the cloud of being too young for things, while the last quarter-century would normally be shadowed by the still darker cloud of being too old for them; and between those two clouds, what small and narrow sunlight illumines a human lifetime!"

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Source : James Hilton (1988). “Lost Horizon”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

James Hilton

#Clouds Quotes #Two Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.”
“People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way to their evil drives.”

Source : Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1990). “Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot”, Gateway Books
“Oughta be a law everybody has to take a trip every two years just to make 'em realize how good home is.”

Source : Mary Lasswell (2016). “One on the House”, p.44, Open Road Media
“It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.”
“Creativity is a continual surprise.”
“Never let anyone silence your voice.”

Source : "Hillary Clinton Delivers Powerful Commencement Address: 'Never Let Anyone Silence Your Voice'". www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 8, 2017.
“I don't relax, I don't celebrate. I sit and plot.”
“Creating festivals made a major impact on society in general because you couldn't draw large crowds indoors. At Newport we were soon drawing crowds of 10,000 and there weren't halls that could hold that many people.”

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