"I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for."

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Source : Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Lucy Grealy

#Nostalgia Quotes #Affair Quotes #Nostalgic Quotes

“Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.”
“What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.”
“There's only one side with me. You get the right side. You get the correct version of the facts.”
“Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.”
“The scientist is not much given to talking of the riddle of the universe. "Riddle" is not a scientific term. The conception of a riddle is "something which can he solved." And hence the scientist does not use that popular phrase. We don't know the why of anything. On that matter we are no further advanced than was the cavedweller. The scientist is contented if he can contribute something toward the knowledge of what is and how it is.”
“Some people come to Old Trafford and can't spell football, let alone understand it. They have a few drinks and a prawn sandwich but don't realise what's happening on the pitch”
“Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.”

Source : Cassius Jackson Keyser (1922). “Mathematical Philosophy: A Study of Fate and Freedom; Lectures for Educated Laymen”
“I'd like to rescue people in trouble, like Superman.”

Source : Interview With Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2012.

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