"This is the way you look at the poorest details of the world resurfaced, after you've been driving for a long time -- you feel their singleness and precise location and the forlorn coincidence of you being there to see them."

-- Alice Munro

#Travel Quotes #Long Quotes #Details Quotes

“I know I'm not gonna please everybody when I make a record. I don't let that affect any of my decisions.”
“If we all helped one person, wouldn't the world be an unbelievable place?”
“The United States needs serious change in its fiscal, entitlement, infrastructure, immigration, and education policies, among others. And yet a polarized and often paralyzed Washington has pushed dealing with these problems off into the future, which will only make them more difficult and expensive to solve.”
“Listen to the tree; it tells you where it wants to go!”
“Authors and artists are still afraid of breaking away as far as [William Burroughs] did... And he did it in the 50s!”
“There are so many hot, sexy women in L.A.”
“A real cop fights real crime. A vice cop's only job is to ruin the party.”
“The floor is solid metal in some places and metal grating in others. Everything smells like rotting garbage and fire. "Don't say I never took you anywhere nice," Peter says. "Wouldn't dream of it," I say.”

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