"No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in."

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Source : Gail Sheehy (2013). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, p.118, Penguin

Gail Sheehy

#Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.”

Source : Paul Ricoeur (1974). “The Conflict of Interpretations”, p.391, Northwestern University Press
“A perfect day would be to get into the car, drive out to Yosemite and go camping.”
“I'm pretty instinctive. I'm a quick learner.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?”
“When I was starting out, conceptual photography had become something that had to be amateur - like, that had to be black-and-white, or photocopied, or really not an object in order to be taken seriously. It had to work against technical mastery, and so on. So I think that my work is full of obstacles in the sense that it does look highly familiar and accessible. It does look like it's already "solved at first sight." It does look like it's part of a larger industry.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“She didn't even notice right away that a small animal had come out from behind a nearby car and was slowly making its way toward the trash can she was standing near. She flipped through some old files in her mind, trying to come up with what this thing might be, and after a few seconds decided that--impossible as it seemed--it was a fox.”
“I'm not a politician; I am a singer. Long ago, they said, 'That one, she sings politics.' I don't sing politics; I merely sing the truth.”
“When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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