"The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us."

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Source : Dave Eggers (2009). “You Shall Know Our Velocity”, p.214, Vintage

Dave Eggers

#Taken Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Do we dare be ourselves? That is the question that counts.”
“Life is so good, and it gets better every day.”

Source : George Dawson, Richard Glaubman (2000). “Life Is So Good”, p.260, Random House
“In a word, I consider hospitals only as the entrance to scientific medicine; they are the first field of observation which a physician enters; but the true sanctuary of medical science is a laboratory; only there can he seek explanations of life in the normal and pathological states by means of experimental analysis.”
“The chief value of the rule lies in preventing an immediate and obvious but inferior good from replacing a longer-range, less obvious but superior one.”
“Trying to keep up with current slang sucks.”
“Making love to a Negro isn't frightening; sleeping with him is. Sleep is complete surrender. It's more than nude; it's naked. Anything can happen during the night, when reason sleeps.”

Source : Dany Laferrière (2010). “How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired”, p.74, Douglas & McIntyre
“I moved to Louisiana to become the executive Chef at Commander's Place. And I must say I had some encouragement from friends such as Ella Brennan, the queen of the New Orleans's culinary set, and others. This was very flattering to a young man with a dream. I was only 26 years old.”
“It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.”

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