Thomas H. Cook quotes

Thomas H. Cook quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The last best hope of life is that at some point during living it, all that you did wrong will suddenly teach you to do right.”
-- Thomas H. Cook

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“A traveler enters the world into which he travels, but a tourist brings his own world with him and never sees the one he's in.”
-- Thomas H. Cook

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“At a certain point memory becomes a beach strewn with landmines, all lifeâ€™s many losses buried in those sands.”
-- Thomas H. Cook

Source : Thomas H. Cook (2012). “The Crime of Julian Wells”, p.23, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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“Babes crying in the wilderness know that the world already has plenty of terrifying noise, but there aren't enough clear voices to smooth our troubled journey through the darkness ... only a few can speak truth to power.”
-- Thomas H. Cook

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“As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.”
“Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.”

Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.171, Simon and Schuster
“When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.”
“The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.”
“Because life is complicated and difficult. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't truly lived.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2007). “A Nameless Witch”, p.239, Macmillan
“Life is like an analogy.”
“Life is more important than 'what film I do next.”
“In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.”
“Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.”
“The [Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule.”

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