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Drifting Onward Down The Stream

T.M Cicinski

Top 10 Best Quotes

“You always thought that you would be glad you were here too and happy to call this place home. Yet now you know that calling a place home does not make it so.”

“Whenever you find yourself doing something for money, the pleasure that you might have gotten from it is usually tainted or lost.”

“To know all, I realised then, was perhaps not to forgive all, as that fragment of popular wisdom suggested.”

“There are lucky people everywhere and unlucky people everywhere. Where you are born does not have much to do with it.”

“The culture has been the same for hundreds of years and your not approving of it, will not change it.”

“Life is hard when you ask it for things it can't give you. When you know what it can give you and ask it only for those things, it is easier.”

“It is never a small thing to have had a dream and lived to see it fulfilled, no matter how small the dream may be.”

“I think that the waiter will melt if he stays outside any longer." "It is possible," I said, grateful to change the subject. "I have heard that that sort of thing happens all over Paris when the weather gets like this. The good restaurants give out Wellington boots so that their patrons won't ruin their shoes when they are wading through the pools of melting waiters.”

“Everything is possible, but some things are more likely than others.”

“Always is not a real thing. Everything has its beginning and end and it is not good to pretend that some things are different.”

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