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Nick Hornby

"She was trying to say something else; she was trying to say that the inability to articulate what one feels in any satisfactory way is one of our enduring tragedies. It wouldn't have been much, and it wouldn't have been useful, but it would have been something that reflected the gravity and the sadness inside her. Instead, she had snapped at him for being a loser. It was as if she were trying to find a handhold on the boulder of her feelings, and had merely ended up with grit under her nails."

-- Nick Hornby

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“I think women are usually a little bit nervous about wearing white denim. There are rules associated, body issues, all of those things.”

Source : "Brad Goreski Is Taking Care of Business". Interview with Kelsey Garcia, www.elle.com. March 13, 2013.
“The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is left none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilizer. It is important to recognize that in our time man has not written one word, thought one thought, put two notes or two bricks together, splashed color on to canvas or concrete into space, in a manner which will be of any conceivable imaginative interest to posterity.”
“He turns and walks away, moving so quickly that the candle flames shiver with the motion of the air. â€œI miss you,â€ Isobel says as he leaves, but the sentiment is crushed by the clatter of the beaded curtain falling closed behind him.”
“The creative is always an act of recombination, with something added by new juxtapositionÂ—as making a spark requires two things struck together.”
“The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.”

Source : Joyce Carol Oates (1998). “The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque”, E P Dutton
“The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.”

Source : Gabriel Marcel (1952). “Men against humanity”
“We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for ourselves.”
“Iâ€™d rather be around a passionate nerd than a non-passionate cool person. Because if you lack passion, your soul is diminishing by the second. You have to be passionate about something. Call it obsessed or whatever you want, but be obsessed about something. Obsessed people care. Iâ€™m passionate about so many things, it becomes an issue at certain points, but at least you have the ability to feel that much about something.”

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