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“I was the sort of kid who spent a Sunday afternoon prying little trees out of the foundation of his parents' house. I should have given in to the inevitable truth that this was the sort of person I would become, in the end, but I kept fighting it.”

Should Littles Persons Ends Kids Fighting House Given Parent Tree Should Have Foundation Inevitable Sunday Afternoon Sunday Afternoons

Book:The Round House: A Novel

Source: The Round House: A Novel

“Remember, how often the great art of the past didn't look great at first, how often it didn't look like art at all; how much easier it is, decades or centuries later, to adore it, not only because it is, in fact, great but because it's still here; because the inevitable little errors and infelicities tend to recede in an object that's survived the War of 1812, the eruption of Krakatoa, the rise and fall of Nazism.”

Firsts Looks Littles Art Stills War Facts Past Remember Fall Century Objects Easier Errors Decades Inevitable Survived Adore Great Art Nazism Rise And Fall Eruption War Of 1812

Author:Michael Cunningham

“There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.”

World Years Littles Done Whole Natural Work Duty Months Machines Whole Life Inevitable Degrade Drudgery

Book:The Outline of History

Source: The Outline of History

“Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable. They little know what radical changes are possible through prayer.”

People Knows Littles Courses Natural Prayer Events Radical Inevitable Radical Change

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“The element of heroic maleness had always been present in the concept of the artist as one who rides the winged horse above the clouds beyond the sight of lesser men, a concept seldom applied to those who worked with colours until the nineteenth century. When the inevitable question is asked, "Why are there no great women artists?" it is this dimension of art that is implied. The askers know little of art, but they know the seven wonders of the painting world.”

Source: The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work

“In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings of their twisty little minds, the only thing that I have learned for certain about women is that when a gal is gonna, she's gonna. All a man can do is cooperate with the inevitable.”

Men Trying Years Mind Littles Certain Given Women Can Do Subjects Inevitable I Have Learned Ninety Eighty Gals Little Minds

Author:Robert A. Heinlein