"Every step you take, a million doors open in front of you like poppies; your next step closes them, and another million bloom. You get on a train, you pick up a lamp, you speak, you donâ€™t. What decides why one thing gets picked to be the way it will be? Accident? Fate? Some weakness in ourselves? Forget your harps, your tin-foil angelsâ€”the only heaven worth having would be the heaven of answers."

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Source : Mark Slouka (2014). “Brewster: A Novel”, p.255, W. W. Norton & Company

Mark Slouka

#Angel Quotes #Fate Quotes #Doors Quotes

“With the Internet, we can choose the very communities we want to be a part of.”

Source : Alex Shakar (2009). “The Savage Girl”, p.24, Harper Collins
“I think I would call Night Music a romantic comedy. I don't know if you are familiar with an old movie called The Ghost and Mrs. Muir? It is an older film. It's more about the romance than it is necessarily a horror flick.”
“The solutions the non-profits are trying to provide aren't keeping pace with the problems they're trying to survive.”
“It's pretty easy to see that... wealth doesn't really equal happiness.”

Source : "Adam Yauch on Happiness: Part One". Interview with Randy Taran, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2012.
“I'm into all types of stuff. I might have on Pumas one day, Givenchy the next. I'd wear this John Elliott sweat suit to the club.”
“I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.”
“Other peoples' success represents the possibility of what you can do.”
“Lord, you are my lover, my longing, my flowing stream, my sun, and I am your reflection.”

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