"Europe has what we [Americans] do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities."

-- James A. Baldwin

#Europe Quotes #Tragedy Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Endless days of dark indoors and hateful glances are enough to set a rime on anyone's bones.”

Source : Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.32, Pan Macmillan
“The whole purpose of spiritual direction is to penetrate beneath the surface of a man's life, to get behind the faÃ§ade of conventional gestures and attitudes which he presents to the world, and to bring out his inner spiritual freedom, his inmost truth, which is what we call the likeness of Christ in his soul.”
“Advice is such a tricky thing when you're young.”
“Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.”

Source : Harold Bloom (2001). “How to Read and Why”, p.29, Simon and Schuster
“Regardless of anything, my dad wants me to "get that piece of paper!" - degree over everything.”

Source : Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. June 22, 2012.
“The way to entice people into cooking is to cook delicious things.”
“Sometimes I think God is like weather - you may not like the weather, but it has nothing to do with you. You just happen to be there. Deal with it. Sadness and grief are part of being human and always will be.”
“I believe that if you go on a date and get to second base and then you go home alone and rub one out, that's like runs batted in.”

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