Six Impossible Things Quotes

“Has study, has learning ever been wasted?” “Shouldn’t one use it?” “Commercially? It is not always possible. In other ways, you will use it all your life. Sometimes, you will not even know that you are using it—but inside you there is a store; a store of beautiful music, of knowledge of what makes music and musicians. Most important of all, you have got, for ever, something of incalculable value for yourself—that is, an outlet. Whether you live the life of an artist or not,”
― Elizabeth Cadell, Six Impossible Things

“Too much had to be fitted into youth: learning, growing, preparing, shaping. You went through it all, pushed, urged, encouraged or bullied by your elders; you went through it blindly and without any sense that the years were slipping away. And suddenly you came home and found that you were twenty-one and grown up. Perhaps other girls reached this stage of awareness earlier; she couldn't tell. For herself, it was enough to understand that childhood was over, and that it had been a time of great happiness. The bad times went unremembered, the memory of the good times endured.”
― Elizabeth Cadell, Six Impossible Things