"My skin was the border between the world and me."

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Source : Aleksandar Hemon (2012). “The Question of Bruno”, p.13, Pan Macmillan

Aleksandar Hemon

#Skins Quotes #Borders Quotes #World Quotes

“I want to see a capitalism that manages resources in a new, much more long-term manner.”
“The children of God all have a cross to bear. A suffering Savior generally has suffering disciples.”
“The key of all life is value. Value is not what you get, it's what you give.”

Source : "Jay Abraham – Real Life Marketing Legend". Interview with Janet Attwood, healthywealthynwise.com.
“The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.”
“Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.”
“I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking; southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I love southern cooking.”
“My parents had irrational fears of Mexico and assumed that once you crossed the border, drug runners made you swallow a ***** balloon and then within the hour you were in a bathtub full of ice and they were harvesting your kidneys.”

Source : Justin Halpern (2010). “Shit My Dad Says”, p.111, Pan Macmillan
“Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.”

Source : Edwin Booth, Edwina Booth Grossman (1894). “Edwin Booth: Recollections by His Daughter, Edwina Booth Grossmann, and Letters to Her and to His Friends”, New York : Century Company

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