"Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone ugly was in bed by now."

-- Scott Westerfeld

#Cutting Quotes #Cities Quotes #Rivers Quotes

“You can't know how weird your own life is until you get some distance on it. Everything seems mundane or boring or embarrassingly small.”

Source : "To Rage Against Meaninglessness". Interview with Matt Bell, logger.believermag.com. February 6, 2014.
“Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.”
“There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.”

Source : Carl Bernstein (1989). “Loyalties: A Son's Memoir”, Simon & Schuster
“How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course? [Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem, Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.]”
“Barca is more than a club and a great team and I want to contribute to Messi staying the best for many years,”
“I knew I was in trouble, but I thought I was in hell.”
“All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.”
“I adore [my son]. I wouldn't trade him in for a Pulitzer - unless someone actually offered that as an option.”

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