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“Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.”
Source : "Peter Carey: making it up as he goes along" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.
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“There's a lot of forces opposed to legalization marijuana, so I don't want to put the cart before the horse. It's looking like it's going the legalization route, which, you know, a lot of people thought it needs to for a long time outside of recreational and medicinal use, just for crime reasons. We're pumping our prisons full of petty weed offenses and it's partially to feed that industry, but it's not good. It's not good for society, people go in there as a minor criminal and come out as a real criminal.”
Source : Source: bigthink.com
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“Some nights, one wants to tell beloveds everything that's been waiting to be said. Some nights, a man needs flesh and blood and warm breath and a loving heart.”
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“Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.”
Source : Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”
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“I was a lot braver when I was eight.”
Source : Claire Cook (2015). “The Wildwater Walking Club”, p.197, Marshbury Beach Books
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“why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.”
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“You think that it must be great to be Superman but it's also hard to be Superman, especially when growing up.”
Source : Source: www.denofgeek.com
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“Administrators need to shift from being controllers to enablers, so as to liberate the energies and talents of the teachers.”