"She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite, and that people who make dates are the same kind who need lines on their writing paper, or who always squeeze up from the bottom on a tube of toothpaste."

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Source : Julio Cortazar (2016). “Hopscotch, Blow-Up, We Love Glenda So Much”, p.49, Everyman's Library

Julio Cortazar

#Life Quotes #Writing Quotes #Opposites Quotes

“I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing.”
“I remember learning German - so beautiful, so strange - at school in Australia on the other side of the earth. My family was nonplussed about me learning such an odd, ugly language and, though of course too sophisticated to say it, the language of the enemy. But I liked the sticklebrick nature of it, building long supple words by putting short ones together. Things could be brought into being that had no name in English - Weltanschauung, Schadenfreude, sippenhaft, Sonderweg, Scheissfreundlichkeit, VergangenheitsbewÃ¤ltigung.”

Source : Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.10, Granta Books
“Rose took my nose, I suppose,â€ he repeated; the bubble of phlegm in his throat made a disgusting crackle. â€œAnd it really blows.”
“I think I have a very clear vision of what I want things to look like.”
“There have been more than 30,000 oil wells drilled in the Gulf of Mexico in the last 50 years. This is the first time something like this has ever happened [BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill], and we need to get to the bottom of it, find out what happened, make sure it doesn't happen again. But I think it is very reasonable to continue to drill.”

Source : "New sensors deployed to gauge oil spill", www.cnn.com. June 13, 2010.
“The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.”
“An honor is not diminished for being shared.”

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