"Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you."

-- Thomas Pynchon

#Book Quotes #Invisible Quotes #Familiarity Quotes

“to know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.”
“Age does not matter if the matter does not age.”
“My intentions were not to fascinate the world with my personality.”
“Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.”
“Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.”

Source : John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.379, Penguin
“Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.”

Source : Kay Ryan (2000). “Say Uncle: Poems”
“Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the Criminal Justice System. That can't be right”
“In order that the revolution should be something more than a word, in order that the reaction should not lead us back tomorrow to the situation of yesterday, the conquest of today must be worth the trouble of defending; the poor of yesterday must be worth the trouble of defending; the poor of yesterday must not be poor tomorrow.”

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