"I think time just goes faster and faster. I'm saying this a few months away from my fortieth birthday. I don't know when and if one's identity ever does catch up with one's actual age. Personally I feel like I just got the hang of thirty-five."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Elif Batuman

#Thinking Quotes #Age Quotes #Identity Quotes

“I get to shift multiple markets. I get to shift economies. It's extremely liberating. I breathe differently.”

Source : "Driven: Shai Agassi's audacious plan to put electric cars on the road" by Daniel Roth, www.wired.com. August 18, 2008.
“We have happy days, remember good dinners.”
“There's nothing like walking onto a Hollywood sound stage.”
“We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves - to be where life is here and now”
“Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.”
“Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too.”

Source : "'John Walker's Blues' meets the boos". www.cnn.com. July 23, 2002.
“Meta-Essence is the life-force of Wonderland. That of your enemies is especially potent. Collect what you can. Use it wisely.”

Source : "Fictional character: Cheshire Cat". Video Game "Alice", www.imdb.com. 2000.
“Some say I do it this way, others say I do it that way, but I say I do it the other way.”

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