"It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone."

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Source : A. Lee Martinez (2007). “In the Company of Ogres”, p.139, Macmillan

A. Lee Martinez

#Missing Quotes #Gone Quotes #World Quotes

“All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.”
“Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.”
“Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?”
“Itâ€™s actually pretty easy to be contrarian. Itâ€™s hard to be contrarian and right.”
“All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.”
“The fantastic is always a break in the acknowledged order, an irruption of the inadmissible within the changeless everyday legality”
“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well....”
“Criticism is a painful pill to swallow, but it always makes you better.”

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