"(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too."

-- Robert M. Pirsig

#World Quotes #Blind Quotes #Familiarity Quotes

“The word itself creates an empty sensation. Try saying it now. "Why?" Notice how your tongue touches nothing when you form the word with your mouth. Feel the gap, the space inside your mouth, that it creates. The air. It is a place that needs filling. It is missing an answer.”

Source : Arlene J. Chai (2010). “The Last Time I Saw Mother”, p.56, Ballantine Books
“Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.”
“If a person feels terrible, it usually should not be shown or acknowledged during a greeting exchange. Instead, the unhappy person is expected to conceal negative feelings, putting on a polite smile to accompany the â€œJust fine, thank you, and how are you?â€ reply to the â€œHow are you today?â€ The true feelings will probably go undetected, not because the smile is such a good mask but because in polite exchanges people rarely care how the other person actually feels.”
“There is an emptiness inside of me -- a void that will never be filled. No one in your life will ever love you as your mother does. There is no love as pure, unconditional and strong as a mother's love. And I will never be loved that way again.”

Source : Hope Edelman (2014). “Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.11, Da Capo Press
“If he's having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 meters... nobody except me.”
“I went to a Presbyterian college, you know, I was in... all the way, and so I remember doing my first sermon when I was 17, I was in high school. It wasn't a full twenty-five minute sermon, but for like ten minutes I got up and they let me do that, and it was on faith.”
“I think being individual in the show business is what gives you life and longevity.”
“I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime.”

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