Quotemeal for Friday, April 12, 1957

"If you lose an opportunity you will be like one who lets the bird fly away; you will never get it back."

— John of the Cross

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— Lillian Hellman —

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— David Head —

"It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand."

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