Home Girl: Building a Dream House on a Lawless Block
by Judith Matloff
Quotes
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness, concerning all acts of initiative(and creation). There is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
There are two cardinal human vices, from which all the others derive their being: impatience and carelessness. Impatience got people evicted from Paradise; carelessness kept them from making their way back there. Or perhaps there is one cardinal vice: impatience. Impatience got people evicted, and impatience kept them from making their way back.
The Zurau Aphorisms
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Worstword Ho
... since enemyhood confers on him a teaspoon of undeserved dignity.
The Lay of the Land