“Across a chasm of years the outlines of even the most vivid life are blurred. But impressions gained as a youthful hobo are likely to endure until the rover has wandered the last road home.”
― Beggars of Life
― Beggars of Life
“It is very strange to think back like this, although come to think of it, there is no fence or hedge round Time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.”
― How Green Was My Valley
― How Green Was My Valley
“Places get stacked with memories when you live in one place too long and try to cram as much life as possible into a short time, getting old too soon. You can’t take a stroll in the park without walking down memory lane. It’s dangerous. You get potholes in the treadmill of your mind.”
― Lanky
― Lanky
“Life is always surprising us - not by its rich, seething layer of bestial refuse - but by the bright, healthy and creative human powers of goodness that are forever forcing their way up through it. It is those powers that awaken our indestructible hope that a brighter, better and more humane life will once again be reborn.”
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