"They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die."

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Source : FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Mar 02, 2011

Lorrie Moore

#Hands Quotes #Want Quotes

“and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing brand of rationalism, it does seem that the naked fundamental experience itself, that primal seizure of mystic insight, stripped of religious concepts, perhaps no longer to be regarded as a religious experience at all, has undergone an immense expansion and now forms the soul of that complex irrationalism that haunts our era like a night bird lost in the dawn.”
“We do not yet know each other because we have not yet dared to be silent together.”

Source : Georgette Leblanc (1932). “Souvenirs: My Life with Maeterlinck”
“Lithuania is a small country, so our contribution would not be that large. We are not afraid of our responsibility. We receive 25 percent of our national budget from the European Union. We understand the value of solidarity.”
“You will surely smile with me when I say, 'Thank God one can still recognise self-pity as such and not give it any greater dignity than just that.”

Source : James Fox (2012). “White Mischief”, p.195, Random House
“I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.”
“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body.”
“The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.”
“There are no more liberals Theyve all been mugged.”

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