"You ever feel like you know someone so much that they can breathe for you? Like when their chest and your chest rise and fall, they do it together because they have to? That's how it felt. That's how it always felt."

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Source : John Corey Whaley (2014). “Noggin”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

John Corey Whaley

#Fall Quotes #Together Quotes #Like You Quotes

“I write when I have to; I write when the song is done and I deal with the idea and I just go with it and I'll become what that song is all about until I have finished it. And when you do that, it makes the song more visual, it makes it more personal.”
“You risk everything if you so much as join a legal protest demonstration in Russia. It raises the stakes.”
“Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.”
“A lot of women do a lot of harm because they don't control their emotions. But in terms of violence, men seem to have a monopoly”
“Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license.”
“That world is growing in this minute.”

Source : The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.
“Each and every day, more people pay the price of Obamacare's mountain of mandates. As I travel across the country, I continue to hear from Americans who want Washington to take its hands off of their healthcare.”
“It's never enough to just tell people about some new insight. Rather, you have to get them to experience it a way that evokes its power and possibility. Instead of pouring knowledge into people's heads, you need to help them grind anew set of eyeglasses so they can see the world in a new way.”

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