"Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#World Quotes #Trouble Quotes #Humans Quotes

“One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.”
“While everyone else is in the spa, im gonna shower because im Tom Daley”
“The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do.”
“Physical love, so unjustly decried, forces everyone to manifest even the smallest bits of kindness he possesses, of selflessness,that they shine in the eyes of all who surround him.”
“Over the last few decades, I've grown more skeptical about a few things in which I used to have more faith. I believe as much in the necessity of, and the possibility of, revolution as I ever did. At the same time, I've grown more skeptical about poetry's role in it or art's contribution to it, and I've grown more skeptical about the university. Universities are big companies, and they're disciplinary in the way that any big institution is. I've found that the political militancy that the professoriate has mostly been fairly repressive of what I take to be necessary politics.”
“The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.”
“Sometimes it's good to leave the past in the past.”

Source : M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.44, Simon and Schuster
“I'm always looking for a new thing that really terrifies me that I think I can't do it and accomplish that.”

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