"You can only drive yourself crazy if you have no distance from the world"

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Source : Suki Kim (2004). “The Interpreter: A Novel”, p.277, Macmillan

Suki Kim

#Distance Quotes #Crazy Quotes #World Quotes

“Some people seem to believe that for each problem there is a solution readily available - a solution that can be promptly achieved by passing a law and voting some money. I think of this as the vending machine concept of social change. Put a coin in the machine and out comes a piece of candy. If there is a social problem, pass a law and out comes a solution.”
“The man who forgets does not forgive, he only loses the remembrance; forgiveness is the offspring of a noble heart, of a generous mind, whilst forgetfulness is only the result of a weak memory, or of an easy carelessness.”
“I love working in TV. TV is fast. You shoot it and it's done quickly.”

Source : "Henry Ian Cusick Talks New The CW Series THE 100, the Fun of Playing a Confused Misanthrope, How LOST Made Him Enjoy Not Knowing What Happens, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 19, 2014.
“There's a world of troubleTrying to take its turn I can hear it shaking undergroundAnd half a dozen lessons I might never learn Not until them troubles come around.”

Source : Song: Only One And Only, Album: Revival
“Aaron and I will be joined at the hip until the day we die. We have loved and hated each other since the day he was born. He's very much a part of my heart. He's going to broadcasting college now, and he'll do fine. But he came into a world that did not welcome him.”
“Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.”
“Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is the power of surprise. After hearing someone shout out an errant answer, we work to understand it, which causes us to reassess our initial assumptions and try out new perspectives. â€œAuthentic dissent can be difficult, but it's always invigorating,â€ [Charlan] Nemeth [a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley] says. â€œIt wakes us right up.”
“No hot guys should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle. Not to mention wear the leather jacket or sport the cool shades. Hot guys should be forced into footie pajamas.”

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