"Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't."

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Julian Barnes

#Book Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“I have been dating someone that treats my heart like it's monkey meat. I feel like a delusional, invisible person half the time so I need to learn what it's like to be treated well before it's too late for me.”
“The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity.”

Source : Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.103, Pan Macmillan
“It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.”

Source : Bill Brandt (1948). “Camera in London”
“We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.”
“EPMD in effect, I'm clockin' mad green Like Kermit the Frog, sloppy like Boss Hog, Girl was runnin' wild...ate her like a corn dog.”
“Consequences are unpitying.”
“Apple is in a position they've been in a lot of times before. They're like Moses showing the way to the promised land, but they don't actually go there.”
“But without the experience of actually singing or playing these things yourself, you don't have the same kind of involvement or understanding of what these musical moves mean. And that is a very big problem in addressing the future of music.”

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