"Reasons get forgotten."

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Source : Alessandro Baricco (1998). “Silk”, Vintage

Alessandro Baricco

#Forgotten Quotes #Reason Quotes

“I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!”

Source : "Mae Whitman Interview PARENTHOOD and SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 12, 2010.
“Sport has the power to change the world...to inspire...to unite people.”
“God is in everything I do and all my work glorifies Him.”
“If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.”
“The great Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, wrote, "One of these days, the younger generation will come knocking at my door." The future is knocking at our door right now. Make no mistake, the next generation will ask us one of two questions. Either they will ask: "What were you thinking; why didn't you act?" Or they will ask instead: "How did you find the moral courage to rise and successfully resolve a crisis that so many said was impossible to solve?”
“It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I'm not working on 'Harry Potter,' then my greatest relaxation is to sit with a book.”
“Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.”
“Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.”

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