"We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life."

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Source : Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

Marina Keegan

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“Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.”
“I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool.”
“Coaching is something I've been a part of my entire life. One of the things I've always been very passionate...”
“Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of human pride. Thus the arts and sciences owe their birth to our vices.”
“If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.”

Source : Paul Auster (2014). “Collected Novels Volume 1: New York Trilogy, In the Country of Last Things, Moon Palace”, p.601, Faber & Faber
“Horsemeat in many European and Asian countries is consumed as a delicacy.”
“Live Freaky! Die Freaky! will be, without a shadow of a doubt, the single greatest film of all time about Charles Manson being the savior to all humanity in the year 3069.”

Source : Interview with Kristopher Terrell, www.filmjerk.com. August 23, 2003.
“In France, if you talk to little boys, they know all of the NBA players and not one single Pro A player.”

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