"...try as i do, i can't recall her surname. Indeed, her very abstractedness and insubstantial personality seemed to say 'forget me'; she seemed to live in parenthesis;..."

-- Muriel Spark

#Personality Quotes #Trying Quotes #Forget Quotes

“I try to paint from life, but I had such a miserable experience with Bonaparte, who wouldn't sit still and kept mumbling about catching a cold and something incoherent about Wellington , so I finally decided to work from photos.”
“Across all countries and cultures surfers are connected not by nationality, religion, politics, age â€¦ but by their experience riding waves. This is a powerful experience both in the waves themselves and inside each surfer.”
“Books arenâ€™t just my defenses, the sandbags I use to fortify my position; they are also the building blocks of my soul, and I am the sum of all I read.”
“On a whim, he stopped and bought a watch from a sidewalk vendor. Normally, Billy could not abide keeping time, especially when it was attached to oneâ€™s body. Time was like a relentlessly needy lapdog one had to haul around. It barked too much and had no sense of loyalty.”

Source : Jim Carroll (2010). “The Petting Zoo: A Novel”, p.25, Penguin
“I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor.”
“The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.”
“We always try to remember that at the end of the day, it's just cookies. Don't stress that hard, because it's a terrible thing to take home with you.”
“Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.”

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