Golding, sailing past the island of Ithaka, thought he would return and land within a few months.  Then war and life intervened, and it took him more than a quarter of a century.  Which goes to show, hang on to your dreams long enough and they can come true.  Or, more simply, never too late. 

In three months, at most, I will be in Ithaca.  It took me a good deal longer than that.  Thirty years in fact; all but four.  

Source: Louis Golding, Good-bye to Ithaca (London: Hutchinson, 1955), p. 96

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