"People in the land of LaLa look like expensive wax fruit. And they work hard to achieve that look."

-- Erica Jong

#Hard Work Quotes #Land Quotes #People Quotes

“I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.”
“Forbear, thou great good husband, little ant.”

Source : 'The Ant'
“All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.”
“Today NBC makes certain content available online and I can't imagine we will change that process.”
“People would go anywhere to see a famous person in the flesh, no matter what they do.”
“This is how you survive the unsurvivable, this is how you lose that which you cannot bear to lose, this is how you reinvent yourself, overcome your abusers, fulfill your ambitions and meet the love of your life: by following what is true, no matter where it leads you.”

Source : Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.195, Macmillan
“Find one correct answer and let the rest disappear.”
“'By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and the void,' announced Democritus. The universe consists only of atoms and the void; all else is opinion and illusion. If the soul exists, it also consists of atoms.”

Source : Edward Robert Harrison (1986). “Masks of the universe”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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