"It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different."

-- Jhumpa Lahiri

#Names Quotes #Clothes Quotes #Parent Quotes

“In the end, the sign of Aretha Franklin's artistry is that she always leaves her mark - first, on the music, then on us.”
“All lives have an equal value.”
“One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.”

Source : Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.25, New Directions Publishing
“Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.”
“Where the material ends, art begins.”
“If God had meant for me to be religious, he would have alphabetized the books of the Bible. It was just too hard for me to find what I was looking for, especially if I was looking for it through a few glasses of scotch.”

Source : Cathie Pelletier (2014). “The Funeral Makers”, p.10, Sourcebooks, Inc.
“Because a rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose,”
“As long as I manage investments properly and don't spend recklessly, Tumblr has given my family a strong safety net and given me the freedom to work on whatever I want. And that's exactly what I plan to do.”

Source : "The One-Person Product". marco.org. May 20, 2013.

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