"Then there is the matter of my mother's abandonment of me. Again, this is the common experience. They walk ahead of us, and walk too fast, and forget us, they are so lost in thoughts of their own, and soon or late they disappear. The only mystery is that we expect it to be otherwise."

-- Marilynne Robinson

#Mother Quotes #Matter Quotes #Common Quotes

“If at the end of the day, people look at it and say, oh, yeah, I liked his stuff, or for the most part I liked his stuff, or I've enjoyed watching some of the things he's done, that's all I can hope for.”
“The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should insist on the need to engage in a meaningful debate on the entire issue of the truth or falsity (or probability or improbability) of religious tenets, without being subject to accusations of impiety, immorality, impoliteness, or any of the other smokescreens used by the pious to deflect attention from the central issues at hand.”
“Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.”
“There are two types of sufferers”
“It is through drawing that masters are first revealed, through drawing that they live and prove their value, whatever variations they may impose on their talent.”
“Even before I wrote any songs, I had this idea of a triangle where the voice was at the top, some sort of guitar element on one side, and then some sort of really basic rhythm on the other side. That's where I started from in the recording process.”
“Therefore the love which us doth bind, But fate so enviously debars, Is the conjunction of the mind, And opposition of the stars.”

Source : 'The Definition of Love' (1681)
“Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.”

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