"In New York, the buildings are like mountains in some ways, but they are only alive because of the people living in them. Real mountains are alive all over."

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Source : Silas House, Neela Vaswani (2012). “Same Sun Here”, p.7, Candlewick Press

Silas House

#New York Quotes #Real Quotes #People Quotes

“"More fun than a barrel of monkeys." Has anyone ever stopped to think how cranky, if not downright vicious, a barrelful of monkeys would be, especially once released from the barrel?”
“There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.”
“Victory cannot tolerate truth.”
“Karate is not about winning over others. It is about winning over one's self. Ultimately, the most challenging opponents we face reside from within - our hang-ups, our insecurities, our prejudices. Overcome these and you will have truly won.”
“No woman will ever satisfy me. I know that now, and I would never try to deny it. But this is actually okay, because I will never satisfy a woman, either. Should I be writing such thoughts? Perhaps not. Perhaps itâ€™s a bad idea. I can definitely foresee a scenario where that first paragraph could come back to haunt me, especially if I somehow became marginally famous.”
“The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human.”
“The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special.It's got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that's what makes a good record.”
“Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy, is nourished with the blood of martyrs and with the blood of tyrants.”

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