"Calvin had long been uneasy in his own person and so lived to put everyone else at ease."

-- Edward P. Jones

#Long Quotes #Ease Quotes #Uneasy Quotes

“Error is part of the overhead of doing research”
“Women are my hobby... every man needs something to keep his hands busy, and I don't have a guitar like Eddie and Michael, or some drums to bash like Alex, so I have to find some friends.”
“Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help. Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You want to be a writer, don't you? Meggie Folchart: You say that as if it's a bad thing. Fenoglio: Oh no, it's just a lonely thing. Sometimes the world you create on the page seems more friendly and alive than the world you actually live in.”
“The Jesus that men want to see is not the Jesus they really need to see.”
“I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.”

Source : Thomas Love Peacock (1861). “Gryll grange, by the author of 'Headlong hall'.”, p.80
“Secretly, or maybe not so secretly, I've always wanted to be a rock star.”
“Her absence had felt like torture--almost a form of personal punishment. He had nobody to discuss his feelings with, and for the first time he realised with appalling clarity what a destructive hold she had over him.”
“The state has an active role to play in ensuring that there is equilibrium between the constituent parts of the economy, the consumers and the producers.”

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