"China was the most optimistic place I'd ever been. Everybody I met was pretty much convinced that their children would have it better than their parents had had it. It was like being in America in the 1950's, with this deep optimism about the future because everything was getting better, and that fascinated me."

-- Neil Gaiman

#Children Quotes #Optimistic Quotes #America Quotes

“I am not yet born; O fill me With strength against those who would freeze my humanity, would dragoon me into a lethal automaton would make me a cog in a machine, a thing with one face, a thing”

Source : 'Prayer Before Birth' (1944)
“More diets start in dress shops than in doctors' offices.”
“I trust no one, not even myself.”

Source : "World: Khrushchev: Notes from a Forbidden Land". content.time.com. November 30, 1970.
“Horror is the removal of masks.”
“We've always been trying to climb this ladder that leans so hard on our own idea of what our big songs are. We realized recently that we're not a band with big songs.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief.”
“Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or assume the existence of God.”
“If you're not happy, if you're not Emmersonianly happy and think everything's going to get better, then you're just sort of a dark animal.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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