"I am starting to like LA, but the concept of a place you have to get used to so much seems a little weird to me. I have been to many foreign cities where I didn't have do acclimatize as much as I did to LA"

-- Sloane Crosley

#Cities Quotes #Littles Quotes #Used Quotes

“When Mama prayed, lives were changed. Not much more than five foot tall, but mountains big and small crumbled all away.”
“Il faut travailler sinon par go u" t, au moins par deÂ sespoir, puisque, tout bien veÂ rifieÂ , travailler est moins ennuyeux que s'amuser. We should work: if not by preference, at least out of despair. All things considered, work is less boring than amusement.”
“There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.”
“There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin.”
“Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours.”
“I would say a must-do in Canada would be to go skiing at Whistler in Vancouver. You could take a chair lift for, like, a half hour to the top of this mountain, and you ski down; it takes like so long to get to the bottom. You go past the clouds. Its absolutely incredible.”
“Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.”
“We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much we had to hide our love, however guarded we had to be about our pleasure, I could not long be miserable about a thing so very sweet. Nor, in my gladness, could I quite believe that anybody would be anything but happy for me if only they knew.”

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