A strawberry uneaten will not long remain a strawberry.
From The Anticipation of Loss, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
The Kolars have a strawberry patch behind the fence, and all June I have been telling myself I would wait for the reddest one. I found it this morning, low under a leaf, and it had gone soft and gray at the bottom where it touched the dirt. For years I took patience for a kind of saving, as though a thing held off from was a thing kept. A strawberry uneaten will not long remain a strawberry. Switch, who has no theory of patience at all, took two and left the stems on the step. I do not know yet whether what I lost was the berry or the month of looking at it.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
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More like it
- When you meet the same situation twice, you haven’t met it once.
- The first step of the day leaves the largest footprint.
- You can neither lose what is precious to you nor keep the box it came in.
- You can fly with the wind or be carried away by it.
- The early bird gets a moment to itself.
- It's hard to say thank you when thank you means goodbye.