"If we didn't love things, then we couldn't feel their loss. The flip side of loving is losing. I mean, you can't experience one without the other."

-- Melissa Holbrook Pierson

#Mean Quotes #Loss Quotes #Flip Quotes

“I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen.”
“Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.”
“Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.”
“Architects cannot teach nature anything.”
“Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as 'providing benefit to the customer'; anything else is waste.”
“Murder is only killing in the wrong place.”

Source : Pat Barker (2013). “The Ghost Road”, p.30, Penguin
“The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.”
“Be like the rocky headland on which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and round it the seething waters are laid to rest.”

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