"The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them."

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Source : "Putting some muscle into the much" by Paula Span, www.washingtonpost.com. May 28, 1995.

Robert James Waller

#Dream Quotes #Work Out Quotes #Vision Quotes

“What we do as a community, as a society, for each other, matters as much as what we do for ourselves. It sounds a little trite, but there's a powerful amount of truth in that, I think.”
“I wanted a shark that's big enough to eat you, and in a large enough amount of liquid so that you could imagine you were in there with it.”
“I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.”
“Well, does he still have his fingernails? Making inquiries while negotiating the release of a US Army pilot from North Korea, in Time.”
“To choose a writer for a friend is like palling around with your cardiologist, who might be musing as you talk to him that you are a sinking man. A writer's love for another writer is never quite free of malice. He may enjoy discussing your failures even more than you do. He probably sees you as tragic, like his characters - or unworthy of tragedy, which is worse.”
“It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me.”
“If General Haig is so smart, why did he finish 214th (out of 310) in his graduating class at West Point? Does that mean there are 213 generals his age who are smarter than he is?”
“That's how you know you really trust someone, I think; when you don't have to talk all the time to make sure they still like you or prove that you have interesting stuff to say.”

Source : Sara Zarr (2008). “Story of a Girl”, p.15, Hachette UK

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