"Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life and to happiness."

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Nancy Etcoff

#Touching Quotes #Listening Quotes #Essentials Quotes

“All these years I've had a story in my mind, the story about us that never really existed. And because of that story, I've kept you framed up on the wall in a little box of nostalgic moonlight.”
“A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on.”
“I have two beautiful children and my husband. The perfect day for me is just to be with them and have fun. We like simple things, you know.”
“Realism in so far as it means Reality to life is always bad art.”
“You can be everything in life but the important thing is to be a good person.”
“If New York is the City That Never Sleeps, then Los Angeles is the City That's Always Passed Out on the Couch.”

Source : Paul Beatty (2016). “The Sellout”, p.136, Oneworld Publications
“Love and happiness inextricably combined? I wanted love stories to coincide with war stories, I wanted hope for my characters, I wanted a sense of a future. So do they. So does the reader. But perhaps I shouldn't speak for everyone when I say that love and happiness are interdependent. In my own experience, happiness came with love. Specifically, my wife. That's when my own apathy and stasis ended for good.”
“I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.”

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