"The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist ? It feels like it exists, but where is it ? And if it did exists, but doesnâ€™t now, then where did it go ?"

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Source : Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being”, p.87, Canongate Books

Ruth Ozeki

#Mean Quotes #Past Quotes #Doe Quotes

“You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.”
“How else to make a dent in an object as immovable as patriarchy itself...?”

Source : Dalma Heyn (2011). “Drama Kings: The Men Who Drive Strong Women Crazy”, p.42, Open Road Media
“As they embrace, she kisses him full on the mouth. And suddenly sticks her tongue right in. She has done this before, often. Itâ€™s one of those drunken long shots which just might, at least theoretically, once in ten thousand tries, throw a relationship right out of its orbit and send it whizzing off on another. Do women ever stop trying? No. But, because they never stop, they learn to be good losers.”
“Like having a great idea, life comes at you fast. It hits you and tries to escape and be expressed in any way possible. In a way, it's a lot like...lightning.”
“When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.”
“Kant takes a free will to be a being or substance with the power to cause a state of the world (or a whole series of such states) spontaneously or from itself.”
“The best thing about television news is, it's immediate. Everything at a news network happens quickly.”
“Identity in America is complicated but it's also simple: it's about whom you identify with and who identifies with you.”

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