"I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need to belong? Are we simply pack animals desperately trying to pretend we are not?"

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Source : Rabih Alameddine (2002). “I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters”, p.232, W. W. Norton & Company

Rabih Alameddine

#Animal Quotes #Individuality Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.”
“I asked a coughing friend of mine why he doesn't stop smoking. 'In this town it wouldn't do any good,' he explained. 'I happen to be a chain breather.'”
“No, but it is something I really enjoy speaking about. You've got to do something with all the books you've read, so you might as well imagine you've optioned them.”
“Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love.”

Source : Thornton Wilder (1962). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey”, New York : Limited Editions Club
“I would never challenge any rapper to a rap-off. It's weird, I'm not that type of rapper.”
“People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.”
“For some reason, we see long-term travel to faraway lands as a recurring dream or an exotic temptation, but not something that applies to the here and now. Instead — out of our insane duty to fear, fashion, and monthly payments on things we don't really need — we quarantine our travels to short, frenzied bursts.”

Source : Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.9, Ballantine Books
“A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.”

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