"But I don't know, maybe it's just as well I never got there. I dreamed about it for so many years. I used to go to English movies just to look at the streets. I remember years ago a guy I knew told me that people going to England find exactly what they go looking for. I said I'd go looking for the England of English Literature, and he nodded and said: "It's there."

-- Helene Hanff

#Years Quotes #People Quotes #Guy Quotes

“Later on when it became a routine it was not as exciting I'll admit that. The first three years were wonderful, the rest were just money making and having fun.”
“When a family breaks you don't hear the crack of the breaking. You don't hear a sound.”

Source : Judy Blundell (2011). “Strings Attached”, p.246, Scholastic Inc.
“A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the centre of his compass at his own home.”

Source : Kobo Abe (2011). “The Woman in the Dunes”, p.94, Vintage
“I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent by the media as much as she ever has been.”
“Your retirement is an opportunity to live out your dreams and take care of your family. Donâ€™t leave it to chance.”

Source : Twitter post from May 24, 2016
“You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.”
“Confronting this regime and opposing Zionists are a national duty, as well as religious and Islamic duty, and a human duty. Even the people of Europe and America despise the Zionists. They hate them. They feel humiliated by the Zionists, who are a burden on them.”
“Christ lived the life we could not live and took the punishment we could not take to offer the hope we cannot resist.”

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