"The best talk is artless, the talk of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves, women in the sun, grouped around baby carriages, talking about their weeks in the hospital or the way meat has gone up, or men in saloons, talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels."

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Source : Joseph Mitchell (2010). “My Ears Are Bent”, p.11, Vintage

Joseph Mitchell

#Baby Quotes #Loneliness Quotes #Men Quotes

“It was a terrifying feeling. And if it was love, he wanted none of it.”
“But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep.”
“I've found that writing and playing music has so little to do with will, and so much to do with just finding what's there waiting for you.”

Source : "Deerhoof". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2006.
“Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.”

Source : Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 1”, p.146, Reprint Services Corporation
“For a player to be good enough to play for Liverpool, he must be prepared to run through a brick wall for me then come out fighting on the other side.”
“And while these pounds were being shed, while the physiological miracles were occurring with the heart and muscle and metabolism, psychological marvels were taking place as well. Just so, the world over, bodies, minds, and souls are constantly being born again, during miles on the road.”
“We can have whatever it is that we choose. I don't care how big it is.”
“Time burns but leaves no ashes.”

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