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Dorothy L. Sayers quote: "Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper"
Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper Dorothy L. Sayers
I believe in some sense much akin to the belief of faith, that I noticed, felt, or underwent what I describe—but it may be that the only reason childhood memories act on us so strongly is that, being the most remote we possess, they are the worst remembered and so offer the least resistance to that process by which we mold them nearer and nearer to an ideal which is fundamentally artistic, or at least nonfactual; so it may be that some of these events I describe never occurred at all, but... Gene Wolfe
He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had been made on the memory, a wound that would ache whenever certain things combined - the taste of gin at mid-day, the smell of flowers under a balcony, the clang of corrugated iron, an ugly bird flopping from perch to perch. Graham Greene
Mother Teresa quote: "In the final analysis, it is between you and God; It was never..."
In the final analysis, it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway. Mother Teresa
...Anand, look at the back of my hands. No hair. The sign of an advanced race, boy. And look at yours. No hair either. But you never know. With some of your mother's bad blood flowing in your veins you could wake up one morning and find yourself hairy like a monkey V. S. Naipaul
A mere redrawing of borders, a change in governments, those things can never faze a Jewess with a good supply of hand wipes in her bag. Michael Chabon
One year I went as a pirate, but from then on I went as a hobo. It's a word you don't hear anymore. Along with 'tramp,' it's been replaced by 'homeless person,' which isn't the same thing. Unlike someone who was evicted or lost his house in a fire, the hobo roughed it by choice. Being at liberty, unencumbered by bills and mortgages, better suited his drinking schedule, and so he found shelter wherever he could, never a bum, but something much less threatening, a figure of merriment, almost. David Sedaris
Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them - certain traits, certain places where you don’t let the world go. Johnny Depp
The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home, like all the men who now live with mermaids at the bottom of the sea. Or the people who found Atlantis. Jeanette Winterson
Terry Eagleton quote: "After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you..."
After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was. Terry Eagleton
Truman Capote quote: "Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season..."
Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring. Truman Capote
Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "And now let us welcome the new year, full of things that never..."
And now let us welcome the new year, full of things that never were. Rainer Maria Rilke
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music. Jorge Luis Borges
For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us. Carson McCullers
It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about. Orson Scott Card

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