"There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the AbbÃ© de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten."

-- Umberto Eco

#Book Quotes #Past Quotes #People Quotes

“When you have 8,000 veterans a year committing suicide, then you have a serious problem,”
“Much later I realized that a person's attitude to pain reveals more about his future than almost any other sign I know.”
“It's only because I've lived with brothers that I realize, after a moment, that he's not looking outside but rather inside, wrestling with something inside himself. And there's nothing for it but to wait.”
“Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.”
“The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake.”
“It's better for me to play with guys because Rock 'n' Roll has such an aggressive attitude”
“Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.”
“Half of Japan still couldn't tell the difference between crime and politics.”

Source : Jon Courtenay Grimwood (2017). “End Of The World Blues”, p.230, Hachette UK

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