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I do love the beginning of the summer hols,' said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages.' 'They go so nice and slowly at first,' said Anne, his little sister. 'Then they start to gallop.


Enid Blyton


#gallop #holidays #summer #summer-holidays #time

This is the true wine of astonishment: "We are not over when we think we are.


Alice Walker


#alzheimer-s #age

It should surprise no one that modern soldiers return home just as conflicted and detached as previous generations. The difference is that in the age of vapid American decadence, their simpler fundamental values are largely irrelevant to we civilians.


Tiffany Madison


#combat #values-in-life #war #warriors #age

In this age of quick fixes and microwave mindsets, most of us want what we want, and we want it right now, whether it is instant download speed, instant riches, or an Oompa-Loompa, but just as you can’t force the farm to produce a harvest, you can’t force your seed of potential to grow until it is ripe and ready.


Derek Rydall


#emergence #law-of-emergence #selfhelp #spirituality #age

Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.


Scott Fitzgerald


#fitzgerald #jazz-age-stories #age

To expect and dread a thing for a lifetime; does not prepare you for the thing itself.


Mary Stewart


#dark-ages #king-author #merlin #wizards #age

It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.


Edith Wharton


#copy #old-world #stupid #age

Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.


Linus Torvalds


#before #commercial #developers #hard #interests

The Americans of the age were not an irreligious people; and the fact that they were Christian was very important, for the marks of Christianity lay all across the Constitution.


Theodore H. White


#christianity #u-s-constitution #age

Shortly before school started, I moved into a studio apartment on a quiet street near the bustle of the downtown in one of the most self-conscious bends of the world. The “Gold Coast” was a neighborhood that stretched five blocks along the lake in a sliver of land just south of Lincoln Park and north of River North. The streets were like fine necklaces and strung together were the brownstone houses and tall condominiums and tiny mansions like pearls, and when the day broke and the sun faded away, their lights burned like jewels shining gaudily in the night. The world’s most elegant bazaar, Michigan Avenue, jutted out from its eastern tip near The Drake Hotel and the timeless blue-green waters of Lake Michigan pressed its shores. The fractious make-up of the people that inhabited it, the flat squareness of its parks and the hint of the lake at the ends of its tree-lined streets squeezed together a domesticated cesspool of age and wealth and standing. It was a place one could readily dress up for an expensive dinner at one of the fashionable restaurants or have a drink miles high in the lounge of the looming John Hancock Building and five minutes later be out walking on the beach with pants cuffed and feet in the cool water at the lake’s edge.


Daniel Amory


#city #contemporary-fiction #contemporary-literature #downtown #lake