We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
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T.S. Eliot
Advice, " Doña Vorchenza chuckled. "Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.
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Scott Lynch
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
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William Faulkner
I walked a mile with Pleasure;She chatted all the way; But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow;And ne’er a word said she; But, oh! The things I learned from her, When Sorrow walked with...
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Robert Browning Hamilton
A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.
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Stephen King
More Quotes By Sharon Kay Penman
I inhale hope with every breath I take.
I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it...
It was just like him, she thought; with him, a happy ending was always a foregone conclusion. But such was the power of his faith that when she was with him; she found herself believing in happy endings, too.
…a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed...
I would see him, Edward.'It was no request; he knew it to be an ultimatum. He shook his head violently, not trusting his voice. Time passed. She was staring at him, saying nothing, and on her face was a look of stunned disbelief, of anguished...
