"He was pointing at the moon, but I was looking at his hand."

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Source : Richard Siken (2015). “War of the Foxes”, p.46, Copper Canyon Press

Richard Siken

#Moon Quotes #Hands Quotes #Pointing Quotes

“You think you're prepared. You think you've done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and then-whoosh! Something arrives out of the blue that you never saw coming. Something you never even imagined. Something that'll knock your little world off its axis. Something that'll either change your life for the better, or end it forever. Chaos.”
“It's the clothes that influence the music I'm going to play.”
“The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is contained within ourselves; its evil and good are perpetually within us.”
“I could eat my body weight in sushi.”
“For my part, I try to do my bit to make people's lives more bearable, in particular children across the globe who are having problems.”
“In contrast to the values of morality, which depend on and encourage our similarities to each other, values like friendship or beauty depend on and encourage our differences. Ultimately, friendship is essential to our fashioning ourselves in ways that don't simply repeat the fashions of our surroundings: it is a mechanism of individuality.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“The bottom line is that there is a lot more that could and should be done to help people with nutrition and exercise.”
“People apply for a job, are asked to work for three or four weeks on probation and are then told to go and are replaced by colleagues. There are shops even in the West End [of London] using large numbers of totally unpaid staff on a permanent basis.”

Source : "Column 856". Daily Hansard - Debate, publications.parliament.uk. March 19, 2013.

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