"Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is."

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Source : Tom Spanbauer (2007). “In the City of Shy Hunters”, p.254, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Tom Spanbauer

#Rose Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Being Human Quotes

“I think that gay people in some ways end up forming a very different sense of humour to straight people. We all go through similar things and it's a way of dealing with it.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com
“I was in college, it was my first year of college when I got the show, so I've been kinda' partying a lot and drinking a lot and I've never been stoned and when I got the show I got really serious... So I kinda stop drinking, cold turkey so I had never been stoned until... It's something that happened with Mila and Ashton...”
“The planet is asleep and it's the fault of musicians who are untrue to themselves.”
“... hearing Andres Segovia in person was quite a revelation ... It was a knockout...”
“I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?”
“Love is too pure a light to burn long among the noisome gases that we breathe, but before it is choked out we may use it as a torch to ignite the cozy fire of affection.”
“Humans have been riding a roller coaster of ups and downs for thousands of years. The yoga tradition, which started at least 5,000 years ago and has continued without interruption, has recorded all of the problems that humans face, and the methods and techniques to overcome those problems.”
“My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.”

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