"There are so many people in the world, and I want to know them all but I donâ€™t even know my next-door neighborâ€™s name."

-- Jon McGregor

#Doors Quotes #Names Quotes #People Quotes

“I often think it's comical How Nature always does contrive That every boy and every gal That's born into the world alive Is either a little Liberal Or else a little Conservative!”
“You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.”
“One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.”
“People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny.”
“Never be afraid to fall apart because it is an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish you had been all along.”
“I am sentimental,â€™ she said. â€˜I could dissect a koala but not its baby. I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I love when you kiss my elongated white hand.”
“We perform the show for the people that are in the room and then that performance is theirs forever and ever.”

Source : Interview with Paulette Beete, www.arts.gov. June 16, 2014.
“Mr. President, call the toady of American imperialism to order.”

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