"Every so often a disappearance is in order. A vanishing. A checking out. An indeterminate period of unavailability. Each person, each sane person, maintains a refuge, or series of refuges, for this purpose. A place, or places, where they can, figuratively if not literally, suspend their membership in the human race."

-- John Murray

#Race Quotes #Order Quotes #Solitude Quotes

“...freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.”

Source : Pearl Cleage (2010). “Till You Hear from Me: A Novel”, p.161, One World/Ballantine
“Twitter is a great place to tell the world what you're thinking before you've had a chance to think about it.”
“Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.”
“If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.”
“Whenever I hear some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on about the evils of sodomy or whatever, I mentally enter his name in my notebook and contentedly set my watch. Sooner rather than later, he will be discovered down on his weary and well-worn old knees in some dreary motel or latrine, with an expired Visa card, having tried to pay well over the odds to be peed upon by some Apache transvestite.”

Source : Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.82, Atlantic Books Ltd
“Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.”
“If the wrong person preaches a right teaching, even a right teaching can become wrong. If a right person expounds a wrong teaching, even a wrong teaching can become right.”
“As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar...Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel...This song ("Until It's Time for You To Go") popped into my head while I was falling in love with someone I knew couldn't stay with me. The words are about honesty and freedom inside the heart.”

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