"To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something."

-- Rachel Kushner

#People Quotes #Alive Quotes

“I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma.”

Source : Lyn Hejinian (2013). “My Life and My Life in the Nineties”, p.19, Wesleyan University Press
“Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry my mother now.”
“After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, "I refute it thus."”
“I try to go to the gym three times a week. And I have to watch what I eat. I'm a normal person.”
“I founded Friends of the Earth to make the Sierra Club look reasonable. Then I founded the Earth Island Institute to make Friends of the Earth seem reasonable.”
“The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It's like being identified with a brand name.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Old radicals never changed. They just got law degrees and updated their bag of tricks.”
“Whatever the outcome of the day I shall never forget that you hit me when I wasn't even looking!”

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