“I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
“I suspect that God’s plan, whatever it is, works on a scale too large to admit our mortal tribulations; that in a single lifetime, accidents and happenstance determine more than we care to admit; and that the best we can do is to try to align ourselves with what we feel is right and construct some meaning out of our confusion, and with grace and nerve play at each moment the hand that we’re dealt.”
― A Promised Land
― A Promised Land
“The cowards never started and the weak died along the way. That leaves us, ladies and gentlemen. Us.”
― Shoe Dog
― Shoe Dog
“We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.”
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“Enthusiasm makes up for a host of deficiencies.”
― A Promised Land
― A Promised Land
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