"The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again."

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Source : Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Jon McGregor

#Cities Quotes #World Quotes #Complicated Quotes

“I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.”
“You're as happy as you allow yourself to be - so why be unhappy?”
“The term ‘free market’ is really a euphemism. What the far right actually means by this term is ‘lawless market.’ In a lawless market, entrepreneurs can get away with privatizing the benefits of the market (profits) while socializing its costs (like pollution).”
“It is difficult to grow old gracefully.”
“Those who take action have a disproportionate impact. The power of one is to move many.”
“I think my character rallies people together to go out and drink.”

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“I could feel myself changing physically. It was like something dropped out of the sky. Seeing her on the fire escape had given me a certain feeling, and then when I saw the photograph of her, it gave me a similar feeling. And I thought that was an incredibly powerful thing - that a photograph could give you a feeling that was similar to a feeling you had in the physical world. Nobody could've told me that. I knew what I was going to do for the rest of my life.”
“If football wasn't a part of my life, there were three things that could have happened, and they were all bad. I would have likely been selling drugs, in jail or dead.”

Source : Chad Ochocinco, Jason Cole (2009). “Ocho Cinco: What Football and Life Have Thrown My Way”, p.228, Crown Archetype

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