“What I mean is, things like that happen. They may seem might cruel and unfair, but that's how life is a part of the time. But that isn't the only way life is. A part of the time, it's mighty good. And a man can't afford to waste all the good part, worrying about the bad parts. That makes it all bad”
― Fred Gipson, quote from Old Yeller
“That was as rough a thing as I ever heard tell of happening to a boy. And I'm mighty proud to learn how my boy stood up to it. You couldn't ask any more of a grown man... It's not a thing you can forget. I don't guess it's a thing you ought to forget. What I mean is, things like that happen. They may seem mighty cruel and unfair, but that's how life is part of the time. But that isn't the only way life is. A part of the time, it's mighty good. And a man can't afford to waste all the good part, worrying about the bad parts. That makes it all bad.”
― Fred Gipson, quote from Old Yeller
“I remember like yesterday how he strayed in out of nowhere to our log cabin on Birdsong Creek. He made me so mad at first that I wanted to kill him. Then, later, when I had to kill him, it was like having to shoot some of my own folks.”
― Fred Gipson, quote from Old Yeller
“Well, when you're fourteen years old, you can't afford to mix in a rock fight with your five-year-old brother. You can't do it, even when you're in the right. You just can't explain a thing like that to your folks. All they'll do is point out how much bigger you are, how unfair it is to your little brother.”
― Fred Gipson, quote from Old Yeller
“When it came to gunfire Jumper didn’t have any more sense than a red ant in a hot skillet.”
― Fred Gipson, quote from Old Yeller
“Now nothing was left hanging to the pole but the frazzled ends of the snapped blades.”
― Fred Gipson, quote from Old Yeller
“... I guessed that when you are nearly a man, you have to learn to put up with a lot of aggravation from little old bitty kids.”
― Fred Gipson, quote from Old Yeller
“I reached in and let him lick my hand. 'Yeller,' I said, 'I'll be back. I'm promising that I'll be back.”
― Fred Gipson, quote from Old Yeller
“Then at night, we could hardly sleep. This”
― Fred Gipson, quote from Old Yeller
“You're getting to be a big boy; and while I'm gone, you'll be the man of the family. I want you to act like one. You take care of Mama and Little Arliss. You look after the work and don't wait around for your mama to point out what needs to be done. Think you can do that?”
― Fred Gipson, quote from Old Yeller
Fred Gipson
Born place: in Mason, TX, The United States
Born date February 7, 1908
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“Your Inner Being, or Source Energy, always offers a perspective that is to your greatest advantage, and when your perspective matches that, then positive attraction is occurring.”
― Esther Hicks, quote from The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham
“Yesterday was a memory. Today was a hope.”
― Karen Marie Moning, quote from Into the Dreaming
“O homem não deve odiar o que adorou, pode unicamente libertar-se, afastar-se, desprender-se disso.”
― Joseph Bédier, quote from The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
“КУЛИНАРНО
След като се пържих на бавен огън от чакане под гранясалото слънце, най-накрая се озовах в зеления гювеч на един автобс, червив от пътници като швейцарско сирене. Сред куп юфка забелязах голям макарон с изпостелял от диета врат и на тиквата с мекица, на която се открояваше нещо като конец за рязане на масло. Този пъпеш сви сармите на един (попарен, сякаш са му изяли десерта!) сухар, понеже му правел на кайма джоланите. Но после бързо пусна кокала, за да се разлее (с брашно и захар, колкото поеме!) в една опразнена формичка за кекс.
Тъкмо се канех да преглътна всичко в автобуса на връщане, когато пред бюфета на гара Сен Севарин отново видях същия тутманик заедно с някакъв тиквеник (от тия, дето са на всяка манджа мерудия!), който му разтягаше лукуми как да се гарнира. И нашия съвсем я втаса.”
― Raymond Queneau, quote from Exercises in Style
“... and my brain put them together in that way brains sometimes do: pairing the ideas that shouldn't be paired, yet nonetheless were.”
― Lauren Myracle, quote from Shine
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