"To live in a city is to be forever flinching,"

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Source : Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.13, Vintage

Jenny Offill

#Cities Quotes #Forever Quotes

“The spirit of the music and the energy that kicks back from the fans inspires me. To stay centered amidst the chaos I meditate. I first meditated at age 17 and have continued off and on through the years.”
“It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.”

Source : FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Oct 04, 2016
“Letter-writing I imagine is counted as 'work' from which you must abstain, and I scribble this letter simply from the self-satisfied notion that you will like to hear from me. You see, I have asked no questions, which are the torture-screws of correspondence. Hence you have nothing to answer.”
“You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things all a man's endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach. The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic. I have reached a nirvana of negativity. I can look futility in the face and still see promise in the stars.”

Source : "Farewell Sebastian Horsley: a true bohemian" by Emily Hill, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2010.
“The bottom line is, if every single platinum song right now wasn't auto-tuned, then I would be like, "I can't be a rapper."”

Source : Source: www.complex.com
“Follow the fellow who follows a dream.”
“The only thing I wouldn't do is sell my arse.”

Source : "Abbott rejects sell-out claims". www.abc.net.au. August 28, 2011.
“What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.”

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