"Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions."

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Source : Miriam Toews (2013). “Swing Low”, p.57, Faber & Faber

Miriam Toews

#Asking Quotes #Oneself Quotes

“Most of the bands that I really like no longer exist. That might just be because I'm in my thirties or whatever. But I also think it's the rare band that doesn't, like, turn into something else.”
“Freedom requires religion like a slug requires salt”
“The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.”
“I have always passed the ball and worked on that part of my game.”
“I cured with the power that came through me. Of course, it was not I who cured,it was the power from the Outer World; the visions and ceremonies only made me like a whole through which the power could come to the two-leggeds. If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.”
“Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.”
“Class Day is a terrible name for a day when you don't have to go to any class.”
“The story is the first thing and the last thing,”

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