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The Cut Glass Bowl and Other Stories (Macmillan Readers: Upper Level) QUOTES

The Cut Glass Bowl and Other Stories (Macmillan Readers: Upper Level) QUOTES

1 " Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down the great sides to the ground and then bounced toward her eagerly. 'You see I am fate,' it shouted, 'and stronger than your puny plans; and I am how-things-turn-out and I am different from your little dreams, and I am the flight of time and the end of beauty and unfulfilled desire; all the accidents and imperceptions and the little minutes that shape the crucial hours are mine. I am the exception that proves no rules, the limits of your control, the condiment in the dish of life. "

― , The Cut Glass Bowl and Other Stories (Macmillan Readers: Upper Level)