"Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin."

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Source : "From The Diary Of A Snail (On Stasis and Progress)". Book by Gunter Grass, 1972.

Gunter Grass

#Tails Quotes #Coins Quotes #Melancholy Quotes

“Life's more amusing than we thought.”

Source : Andrew Lang (2014). “Rhymes à la Mode”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
“The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness.”

Source : "York University: The Way Must Be Tried" by Michiel Horn, (p. 4), 2008.
“They often say, "What's the point in astrology if you can't change your destiny?" Well, it's true that you can't change your destiny, but still it helps knowing about gravity.”
“For the most part we do not first see, and then define, we define first and then see. In the great blooming, buzzing confusion of the outer world we pick out what our culture has already defined for us, and we tend to perceive that which we have picked out in the form stereotyped for us by our culture.”
“For nearly a century the psychoanalysts have been writing op-ed pieces about the workings of a country they've never traveled to, a place that, like China, has been off-limits. Suddenly, the country has opened its borders and is crawling with foreign correspondents, neurobiologists are filing ten stories a week, filled with new data. These two groups of writers, however, don't seem to read each other's work. That's because the analysts are writing about a country they call Mind and the neuroscientists are reporting from a country they call Brain.”
“Everything starts with design.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com
“I just want to be rich and famous.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.”

Source : "Arms Wide Open: Patrice Leconte Talks About 'Intimate Strangers'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. July 30, 2004.

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