Source: Max
“When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.”
Source: Dandelion Wine (1957), p. 142
Context: “I don’t know,” he admitted.
“Well.” She started pouring tea. “To start things off, what do you think of the world?”
“I don’t know anything.”
“The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you’re seventeen you know everything. When you’re twenty-seven if you still know everything you’re still seventeen.”
“You seem to have learned quite a lot over the years.”
“It is the privilege of old people to seem to know everything. But it’s an act and a mask, like every other act and mask. Between ourselves, we old ones wink at each other and smile, saying, How do you like my mask, my act, my certainty? Isn’t life a play? Don’t I play it well?”
They both laughed quietly.
“Sorry can be the hardest word when you know you're wrong.”
Over
Come Closer (2006)
“Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.'
'You think so?”
'I'm quite sure. If you don't it doesn't matter. Nothing will matter then.'
Colonel John Boyle and David in Ch. 7
The Garden of Eden (1986)
When you remember everything you not only remember what you did right, you also remember your mistakes great and small. Also others seldom like to be made aware of their own mistakes that you may remember as well. They tend to get upset when reminded of them.
as quoted by [James W. Botkin, Dan Dimancescu, Ray Stata, The innovators: rediscovering America's creative energy, Harper & Row, 1984, 0060152850, 165]
“When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.”
Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
