“Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”
Cormac McCarthy book All the Pretty Horses
Source: All the Pretty Horses
“Society waits unformed and is between things ended and things begun.”
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Kiran Desai book The Inheritance of Loss
Source: The Inheritance of Loss
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