"Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives?"

-- Douglas Coupland

#Choices Quotes #Stories Quotes #Boring Quotes

“The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.”
“Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.”
“Freud thought he was bringing the plague to the U.S.A., but the U.S.A. has victoriously resisted the psychoanalytical frost by real deep freezing, by mental and sexual refrigeration. They have countered the black magic of the Unconscious with the white magic of "doing your own thing," air conditioning, sterilization, mental frigidity and the cold media of information.”
“I'm surprised, but I'm glad, I realise that this is what i wanted that night last week, to simply make a connection and keep hold of it.”

Source : Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.268, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“If I truly believe in Him, I'll trust Him to desire for me that which is for my highest good, and to have planned for its fulfillment.”
“Writers around the world protested when two Communist writers, Siniavski and Daniel, were sentenced to prison by their own comrades. But not even churches protest when Christians are put in prison for their faith.”
“The crew and cast at Castle becomes more of a reality than the people I've known all my life”
“Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.”

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