"I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all."

-- Tony Judt

#London Quotes #Chance Quotes #Born Quotes

“We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse”
“What I want to do is to make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously.”
“There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.”
“FAITH untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it is without trials.”
“The strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell. It is pounded and struck repeatedly before it's plunged back into the molten fire. The fire gives it power and flexibility, and the blows give it STRENGTH. Those two thing make the metal pliable and able to withstand every battle it's called upon to fight.”
“Every actor pretends that they hate sex scenes, and the truth is that they all love them, and they're lying.”
“This capacity for oversignifying, for reading in, is precisely what poets tap into, both in their own practice and in the poem the give to the reader; and in doing so they turn language against its own project of conceptual division, and use it to heal itself - and in the process - paradoxically - to articulate new concepts that it can't yet accommodate.”
“Sometimes when we're flying or in the hotel, I might run over songs, or in the bathroom.”

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