"We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of."

-- Rachel Cusk

#Sight Quotes #Forever Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period....”
“In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance.”

Source : Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.127, New York Review of Books
“It doesn't help that we are three generations of actresses, who are always obsessed with losing time. But on the other side, historically, women have much more time on their hands than before. It goes together-the more time we have, the more we're flipping out about how we've got to deal with it.”
“You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love you keep something back when you know somewhere in your gut that this relationship is going to be forever.”
“Life is a grand party.”
“I would tell young people to start where they are with what they have and that the secret of a big success is starting with a small success and dreaming bigger and bigger dreams, I would tell them also that a young Black woman or a young Black man can't dream too much today or dare too much if he or she works hard, perseveres and dedicates themselves to excellence.”
“By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.”
“I feel sorry for the '90s, because it was never able to be anything much more than the hangover to the party that was the '80s.”

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