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Melanie’s Quotes

“The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Fall of Atlantis

tags: despair, hope

1662 likes

“I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all." - Marie Antoinette”
― Antonia Fraser, Marie Antoinette: The Journey

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“[On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'"

(One On 1, interview with Budd Mishkin; NY1, March 25, 2007.)”
― David Halberstam, Everything They Had: Sports Writing

tags: baseball, basketball, david-halberstam, julius-erving, professionalism, sports, work-ethic, writing

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“As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.”
― Antonia Fraser

tags: hatred, oppression, persecution, terrorism, violence

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