"... one always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other."

-- George Eliot

#Stupid Quotes #Believe Quotes #Towns Quotes

“When I had a few francs, I spent them at a cafÃ© on the Place de Longchamps, a block or so from my pension, where I could order a glass of Beaujolais and a plate of string beans in vinaigrette for the equivalent of fifteen cents.”
“I feel like people start to believe things that people say about them and start to think they're really important. If you have a family that is down to earth and cool, I don't see how you can be like that.”
“You never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose, nor a body to kick.”
“The isolation spins its mysterious cocoon, focusing the mind on one place, one time, one rhythm - the turning of the light. The island knows no other human voices, no other footprints. On the Offshore Lights you can live any story you want to tell yourself, and no one will say you're wrong: not the seagulls, not the prisms, not the wind.”

Source : M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.110, Simon and Schuster
“You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.”
“The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.”
“We benefit from doing nothing, from going out to play, from giving from the heart and spending time in nature. Most of all we benefit from having healthy, strong, and loving relationships with other people and from exercising the altruistic parts of ourselves.”
“Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.”

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