"There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker."

-- Gabrielle Zevin

#Wall Quotes #Glasses Quotes #Dying Quotes

“I have got five minutes, some whip-its, and the key to the executive bathroom.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I feel that the same God-force that is the mother and father of the Pope is also the mother and father of the loneliest wino on the planet.”
“I really want to go back to school and finish up my sociology degree.”
“Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.”
“Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I'm not doing any of that right now. I don't have any axes to grind.”
“I wish I had more guts when I was younger because then I would've said things to people's faces instead of just running away all the time.”
“To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving the impression of a mathematical acceleration of rhythm, while the movement itself slowed . Â I first called this piece Mouvement symphonique. On reflection I found that a bit colorless. Suddenly, a rather romantic image crossed my mind, and when the work was finished, I wrote the title Pacific 231, which indicates a locomotive for heavy loads and high speeds (a type unfortunately disappeared, alas, and sacrificed to electric traction).”
“If our father had had his way, nobody who did not know how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him.”

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