"I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible."

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Source : Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 1: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.98, A&C Black

Storm Jameson

#Cities Quotes #Invisible Quotes

“It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.”

Source : Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.56, Simon and Schuster
“calls her beautiful, but she cannot hear...”
“Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.”
“Non-violent ecological activism, scientific research and art are pillars of my experience. But I am also a story-teller. I merge science, and my passion for literature whenever possible if it helps me to wrestle demons, and to more effectively communicate what I believe to be most important to our lives.”
“I have made enough faces.”
“I got a flash of ... what it means, now, 'you can't be too rich or too thin.' How well it works, will keep on working, because the vast majority of women will never be thin. Thin enough. How well the hope of class mobility keeps every mother dieting, and handing the diets down to her daughter, hoping the daughter may do even better. When you combine this with the fact that many non-white peoples tend to be heavier than white folks, dieting becomes a tool not only in enforcing class but in encouraging assimilation.”
“It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration.”
“The rumble of a subway train, the rattle of the taxis.”

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