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Category: Kim Wright

There’s no such thing as fate. It’s just the word men give to decisions which have worked out badly.

decisions, fate

Fate drives cruel bargains. We must always release one thing before we can grasp something else.

Falling in love slowly is like awakening one morning to find that the sun has risen in the west.

falling-in-love, love

I hope I leave this world gracefully, like a pilgrim slips from the back of his donkey at the end of a long ride, like a traveler disembarks from an airplane that has carried him across a great ocean.

death, dying, pilgrim

This is what progress does, you know. Each step into the future makes us ever so much grander and more demanding and thus ever so slightly less human.

humanity, progress

If you want a man to trust you, ask him for a favor. Most people get this part wrong. They try to win people over by offering something to them, but humans instinctively recoil from those who help them. They like the people that they help far better, even if the favor granted is as small as a cigarette.

If you want a man to trust you, ask him for a favor. Most people get this part wrong. They try to win people over by offering something to them, but humans instinctively recoil from those who help them. They like the people that they help far better, even if the favor granted is as small as a cigarette.