“Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”
“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.”
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American singer-songwriter and actress 1946Related quotes
“You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.”
“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“The art road is paved with thorns.”
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Source: The Waste Land (1922), Line 359 et seq.
Eliot's note: Stimulated by Shackleton's Antarctic expedition where the explorers at the extremity of their strength believed there was another who walked with them across South Georgia!
“The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.”
As quoted in "Works in Progress" in The New York Times Book Review (15 July 1979), page BR1