Alden Nowlan quotes
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“The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.”
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“My country has no history, only a past.”
-- Alden NowlanSource : Alden Nowlan (2004). “Between Tears and Laughter: Selected Poems”, Bloodaxe Books
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“Growing up is never straight forward. There are moments when everything is fine, and other moments where you realize that there are certain memories that you'll never get back, and certain people that are going to change, and the hardest part is knowing that there's nothing you can do except watch them.”
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“Being a foreigner is not a disease.”
-- Alden NowlanSource : Alden Nowlan (1968). “Miracle at Indian River: stories”, Toronto, Clarke
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“Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.”
-- Alden Nowlan
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“On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.”
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“Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.”
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Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.707, Simon and Schuster
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