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Joseph Conrad quote: "We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth..."
We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday. Joseph Conrad
You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them - no matter how old or impressive they may be - as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much - we simply grow taller. O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales. Leo Rosten
Early spring, yes. It's one of those cautiously hopeful days at the beginning of April, after the clocks have made their great leap forward but before the weather or the more suspicious trees have quite had the courage to follow them, and Kate and I are traveling north in a car crammed with food and books and old saucepans and spare pieces of furniture. Michael Frayn
Nihil humanum a me alienum puto, said the Roman poet Terence: 'Nothing human is alien to me.' The slogan of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service could have been the reverse: To us, no aliens are human. Christopher Hitchens
Sylvia Plath quote: "I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart...."
I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath
When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begun -- that "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the holidays -- whenever. But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive. You find yourself asking, 'Well then, exactly what was it I was having -- that interlude -- the scrambly madness -- all that time I had before? Doug Coupland
Logically, I understand that it wasn't Edward's fault my family fell apart after he left. But when you're eleven years old, you don't give a flip about logic. You just really miss holding your big brother's hand. Jodi Picoult
Garrison Keillor quote: "You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories."
You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories. Garrison Keillor
Virginia Woolf quote: "Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges..."
Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to a good man, they say[.] Virginia Woolf
Sylvia Plath quote: "I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I..."
I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. Sylvia Plath
Lillian Hellman quote: "I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself."
I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself. Lillian Hellman
Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal. Charles Dickens
I take up my own pen again - the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To myself - today - I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will. Henry James
Before you there lie the Steppes, my darling—only the Steppes, the naked Steppes, the Steppes that are as bare as the palm of my hand. There there live only heartless old women and rude peasants and drunkards. There the trees have already shed their leaves. There abide but rain and cold. Fyodor Dostoevsky
How I go to the woods Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don’t really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours. Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable... Mary Oliver

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