"Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Age Quotes #Youth Quotes #Surface Quotes

“We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group.”
“Training fighters is like trying to catch a fish. It's technique, not strength.”
“Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.”

Source : Hans Georg Gadamer, J. E. Malpas, Ulrich von Arnswald, Jens Kertscher (2002). “Gadamer's Century: Essays in Honor of Hans-Georg Gadamer”, p.315, MIT Press
“Cadavers and spirits are human refuse, and they are absurdly difficult to dispose of properly. When someone dies, a small gang of specialists is required to remove and inter the body in such a way that it can always be located precisely at any time while preventing it from ever appearing again.”
“Just give me my rights. All I want is the same rights that my fathers died for If I don't deserve no rights, then who does deserve rights? I didn't break no law.”
“Dating is all about the chase. It's fun!”
“Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you Âfinish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Anne Enright, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
“I'm the oldest I've ever been, right now.”

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