"When little ones say they want to go home, they almost never mean it. They mean they are tired of this particular game and would like to start another."

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Catherynne M. Valente

#Home Quotes #Tired Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive, but you'll never know.”

Source : Song: For A Dancer, 1974
“This leads to a question - if a great many people are for a certain project, is it necessarily right? If the vast majority is for it, is it even more certainly right? This, to be sure, is one of the tricky points of democracy. The minority often turns out to be right, and though one believes in the efficacy of the democratic process, one has also to recognize that the demand of the many for a particular project at a particular time may mean only disaster.”

Source : Frances Perkins (2011). “The Roosevelt I Knew”, p.104, Penguin
“Pre-season was very challenging with the African Championships on my continent. Unfortunately, I failed to qualify for the Games there. It was an emotional moment for me due to the context, but I quickly accepted the result as evidence of what my preparation has been the past 3 years.”
“Thank goodness there are women in our lives -- that's all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.”
“There's only one thing that everyone in this world has in common: whether you want to love somebody and you want to be loved in return.”
“The resolution of the Phoenix Saga was one of the most frustrating experiences that I think any of us ever had, but I also think it was the right move. The decision, three years later, to undo the Phoenix Saga with the resurrection of Jean was less so, but that's in my opinion.”
“From the writer's point of view, critics should be ignored, although it's hard not to do what they suggest. I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends. Suppose you write something that stinks, what are they going to say in a review? Say it stinks? So if they're honest, they do, and if you were friends you're still friends, but the knowledge of your lousy writing and their articulate admission of it will be always something between the two of you, like the knowledge between a man and his wife of some shady adultery.”
“[Harold Pinter] is a British playwright and is one of my favorite writers. Harold was very obsessed with when memory becomes mythology, that at some point you change your memory to fit who you believe you are.”

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