"The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone,"

-- Colson Whitehead

#Cities Quotes #Persons Quotes

“I guess it was this over-riding feeling I wanted people to get from the album - a kind of positivity. On the one hand it's quite a sad record, but I wanted the songs in essence to be about pulling yourself out of a difficult time. So I thought that the idea of day after a really long, difficult night, would be pretty appropriate... I think the album's about contrasts too - contrasts of emotion - so I thought the comparison was appropriate.”
“Today only the person who no longer believes in a happy ending, only he who has consciously renounced it, is able to live. A happy century does not exist; but there are moments of happiness, and there is freedom in the moment.”
“I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.”
“This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.”
“Are people who have been crazy held to unfair standards?Of course, but it's not in your best interest to complain. If you're paranoid and people are looking at you funny it's best to let it pass. Psychotic people have an uncanny knack for making their own worst dreams come true. Depressing things happen to depressed people way beyond what you would expect from random distribution.”
“After spending all of her girlhood fervently wishing she could run away from homeâ€” sheâ€™d actually done it.”
“It may be healthier to eat beer and franks with cheer and thanks, than to eat sprouts and bread with doubts and dread.”
“I'm going to wake up tomorrow and start with not caring how I feel.”

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