"I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want."

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Source : Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Jonathan Safran Foer

#Shy Quotes #Want Quotes #Shame Quotes

“I've always been a composer dependent on texts.”
“I use minimal software to make my music - a wav editor and a calculator for my beats to make sure everything falls on mathematical precision. If you were just mapping this out visually, it works by math. I guess it's slightly engineering influenced.”
“Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?”
“I've been very lucky at what's happened in my career to date, but playing something as far from me as possible is an ambition of mine - anything from a mutated baddy in a comic book action thriller, to a detective. If anything, I'd like Gary Oldman's career: he's the perfect example of it. I've love to have a really broad sweep of characters - to be able to do something edgy, surprising and unfashionable.”
“Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.”
“Nature declares herself in her works. What exists beyond her domain, if anything, becomes necessarily a matter of faith or imagination.”

Source : Harvey Rice (1890). “Nature and Culture”, p.2, Library of Alexandria
“There is wisdom in waves. Some surfers see it right away, others never do. To find success in surfing, we must learn to be in harmony with nature. This will bring a sense of peace. By sharing this peace, and contributing to other people's happiness, we can find the true meaning of life. Keep surfing . . .”
“Dâ€™Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, heâ€™ll be his usual charming self by morning.”

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