"Never find fault with the absent."

-- Alexander Pope

#Literature Quotes #Faults Quotes #Absent Quotes

“Objects always meet your obsession. Once you have an obsession, you step on it at every corner.”
“I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.”
“People fascinate me. Consciously or unconsciously, I have been studying their behavior all my life.”
“It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for some place that doesn’t exist. I felt that. Still do. I’m never completely at home anywhere.”

Source : Danzy Senna (2013). “From Caucasia, with Love”, p.315, A&C Black
“How incredibly far our lives drift from where we knew with all certainty they would go. How little today resembles what yesterday thought it would look like.”

Source : Jim Beaver (2009). “Life's That Way”, p.37, Penguin
“When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.”
“The mind, properly controlled, can do just about everything. You can think your way through adversity, you can think your way through problems. It is a superpowerful instrument which so few use to maximum. And if the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things.”
“The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) own computer model easily shows that President Obama's proposed regulations would reduce global warming by around 0.02 of a degree Celsius by the year 2100. Actually, the true number is probably even smaller because that calculation assumes a future rate of warming - there hasn't been any for 17 years now - quite a bit higher than it is likely to be.”

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