"I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget."

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Source : William Lyon Phelps (1935). “... Yearbook”

William Lyon Phelps

#Happiness Quotes #Attitude Quotes #Book Quotes

“Thereâ€™s no such thing as a wrong note.”
“As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.”
“It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?”
“I'm still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands.”
“I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree's way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind.”

Source : May Sarton (2014). “Recovering: A Journal”, p.121, Open Road Media
“I think everybody likes to play the villain. Theyre always much more interesting characters.”
“Physics is very muddled again at the moment; it is much too hard for me anyway, and I wish I were a movie comedian or something like that and had never heard anything about physics!”
“The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.”

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