"I'm surprised, but I'm glad, I realise that this is what i wanted that night last week, to simply make a connection and keep hold of it."

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Source : Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.268, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Jon McGregor

#Night Quotes #Connections Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?”
“The only men who can turn my blood stream into a condition resembling heavy surf are good-looking heels with characters as intricately unpleasant as the sewers of Paris. With decent and honorable gents, I come all over Platonic. Was ever a woman so perverse and wrongheaded?”
“There is such a choice of difficulties that I am myself at a loss how to determine.”
“All currency is neurotic currency.”

Source : Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.271, Wesleyan University Press
“Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can't really have ecstasy as something other than yourself”
“In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.”
“Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure thatâ€™s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done”

Source : H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.3015, Delphi Classics
“In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club - the 'hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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