"We live in a bureaucratic, atomized world, but the system is still run by human beings. If as a writer, you want to capture the world we live in, I think you have some responsibility to at least try to get at some of the ways we've chosen to govern ourselves."

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Source : Source: threeguysonebook.com

Adam Haslett

#Running Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!”
“You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.”

Source : Lillian Hellman (1943). “The North Star: A Motion Picture about Some Russian People”
“I don't know where you have to go or what you have to do, but I'll wait for you, John. Every bit of my heart belongs to you, whether you ask for it or not.”
“For forty years I have play the oboe, and still I never know what is coming out. It is a perpetual anxiety. But maybe this is good-I have never the time to get myself bored.”
“A lot of people want to judge the fact that I'm an actor. That's ridiculous. No one knows what I was doing before I made my first movie. I just happened to do it as an actor all the while I've been doing music, but never with the intention to become a screaming famous pop star.”
“I have given God countless reasons not to love me. None of them has been strong enough to change Him.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 31, 2013
“You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.”
“Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.”

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