"What remains of your past if you didn't allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories."

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Source : FaceBook post by David Rakoff from Mar 05, 2017

David Rakoff

#Memories Quotes #Past Quotes #Zoom Quotes

“For me what was amazing was consumerism of people survived after Katrina. You see in a yard that the SUV is gone but they left the Ferrari or the more expensive car because it just wasn't practical. They couldn't get all their stuff in it. So you see this beautiful car totally destroyed; motorcycles. You walk into these houses - we were with the New Orleans police when they would go into the houses - we'd go through these houses and we were just amazed at how much stuff that had been accumulated and how much was left behind.”
“It is an indication of Chelski's warped finances that even successive titles can be regarded as failure. Spend unprecedented sums and only unprecedented success can be commensurate. Chelski won't get the credit they think they deserve because of the money they've spent. There's Â£300m worth of difference between a victory and an achievement.”
“It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.”

Source : Alan Sillitoe (2016). “New and Collected Stories”, p.8, Open Road Media
“Dress is an index of your contents.”
“You want The Next Big Thing? Let me take my pants off!”
“When key users told us something wasn't working, we fixed it - immediately.”
“As a military child I first learned how to deal with different types of people and how to deal with order.”
“Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it made while being dropped down a flight of stairs.”

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