"If Tao Lin had been born to Gary Shteyngart's parents and spent his early twenties slaving for pageviews at NewYorker.com, he would have written something like this, the Bright Lights, Big City of the click-here-now generation."

-- Gideon Lewis-Kraus

#Cities Quotes #Light Quotes #Parent Quotes

“We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.”
“A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she acquires an appetite for the world of grace.”
“The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.”
“Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?”
“I think something will soon have to be done to protect people from hacking and blogging and lying and spreading rumors and chasing you down the street. Lives are wrecked that way.”
“I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.”

Source : "Singer-songwriter-guitarist Robbie Robertson". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 16, 2013.
“Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources,”
“I remember reading about the astounding number of people in this country who die within three years of retiring, which proves to me that if you lose the sense that you are producing or contributing in some way, you literally lose the will to live, and that if you do have a reason to hang on, you will.”

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