"I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories."

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Memories Quotes #Past Quotes #Sides Quotes

“I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you. We are not always allowed this knowledge, and so our love sometimes becomes retrospective.”

Source : Anita Shreve (2014). “The Weight Of Water”, p.42, Hachette UK
“Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill.”
“I read an interview with Daniel Woodrell once where he said something like, basically, if people had said what they said to him in a bar instead of workshop, he would have punched them...and I finally understood that when in a class with my wife. Every time someone said something about her work, I wanted to climb across the table and stab them in the neck with my pen. And these were people I liked and respected.”
“If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.”
“It is something wonderful when one can love another author. That happens so rarely, without any kind of misgivings that authors often have between each other. It is a good fortune, when you can adore, when you can love, when you can find something so magnificent.”
“I think kids are incredibly savvy readers. I think we should give them all the credit in the world. They want to know the truth.”

Source : Source: www.hbook.com
“It wasnt until two or three years ago that I actually learned that in the end he actually did kill someone. But that was a choice that he faced: to kill or be killed.”
“Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.”

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