"The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense."

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Source : "This much I know: Joshua Ferris" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2010.

Joshua Ferris

#Everyday Quotes #Answers Quotes #Everyday Life Quotes

“Vices are their own punishment”
“...Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non- violent.... They must harass, debate, petition, boycott, sing hymns, pray on steps--and shoot from their windows when the racists come cruising through their communities.... The acceptance of our condition is the only form of extremism which discredits us before our children [ellipses in source].”
“My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.”
“It's very important with an artificial leg that all high heels are exactly the same height.”
“Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.”

Source : Jon Krakauer (2012). “Eiger Dreams: Ventures among men and mountains”, p.12, Pan Macmillan
“The fact that my dad was never around gave me a lot of determination. It really set this fire full of fuel, so to speak. It didn't matter what anybody was telling me, how many times I got rejected, because it was never as bad as being rejected by your own father.”

Source : "Guns N' Roses DJ Ashba: On Overcoming Obstacles with a Guitar". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.
“When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not.”
“Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.”

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