"Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?"

-- James Lee Burke

#Trying Quotes #Umbilical Cord Quotes #Like You Quotes

“To make positive change requires lasting commitment, lasting commitment requires measurable targets, measurable targets requires detailed action plans, detailed action plans requires a goal you desire, desire requires a positive attitude to change your life, and the option to change your life requires WORK. Byron Pulsifer, from Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?”
“A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.”
“No, Paul, I couldn't care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.' (Said to Paul by Elizabeth Costello, the interloping novelist-angel-inner voice).”

Source : J. M. Coetzee (2005). “Slow Man”, Viking Press
“We gotta flip the script on what a gangsta is - if you ain't a gardener, you ain't gangsta.”
“I leave off mid-sentence, and then can finish it the next day with less anxiety expended than for a new thought.”
“In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate.”
“In school, they would tell you that life wouldnâ€™t come to you; you had to go out and make it your own. But when it came to love, the message for girls seemed to be this: Donâ€™t. Donâ€™t go after what you want. Wait. Wait to be chosen, as if only in the eye of another could one truly find value. The message was confusing and infuriating. It was a shell game with no actual pea under the rapidly moving cups.”
“I could only destroy to build.”

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