"I shall go on some last wilderness trip, to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return."

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Source : Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”

Everett Ruess

#Goes On Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Return Quotes

“Patience! patience! You are always in a hurry, but God is not.”
“I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There's this notion that actors choose their career. After a certain level, I think that that's true. I still take way more jobs than I turn down, and the reason that I turn down a job is that I just can't find anything in it that charges me or excites me or challenges me about moving to the next phase of where I'm headed.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I make up the characters in my books, but of course my consciousness is filled with every child I've ever known, including my two grandchildren, my own kids (I had four) and especially myself as a child, because that person still lives inside me, too.”
“A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.”
“Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not do to others what thou wouldst not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.”
“It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.”

Source : Svend Petersen, Edward Everett (1963). “The Gettysburg addresses: the story of two orations”
“In the hours that followed, I learned that Ademic hand gestures did not actually represent facial expressions. It was nothing so simple as that. For example a smile can mean you're amused, happy, grateful, or satisfied. You can smile to comfort someone. You can smile because you're content or because you're in love. A grimace or a grin look similar to a smile, but they mean entirely different things. Imagine trying to teach someone how to smile. Imagine trying to describe what different smiles mean and when, precisely, to use them in conversation. It's harder than learning to walk.”

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