"Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future."

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Source : "Stay Awake". Book by Dan Chaon, 2012.

Dan Chaon

#Moving Quotes #Moving Forward Quotes #Alive Quotes

“Perhaps nothing is more magical then the book. Paper, glue and some words and you are taken away from where you sit, stand, dance, or lean.”
“For the most part, people don't know who I am.”
“I've never been out with any of the cast of Coronation Street. We're all very close friends so it's very much a professional attitude.”
“People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything.”
“Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because it misses some idealized optimum is therefore gratuitous. Not knowing the objectives of the designer, Gould is in no position to say whether the designer has proposed a faulty compromise among those objectives.”
“From the onset of the 'Live-Read' series, we wanted to hit all the major writers and Woody Allen is simply one of the greatest screenwriters of all time. He has ability to match pathos and comedy and drama and then turn it all on a dime. If you're going to make a series based on dialogue, you can't find much better than Woody Allen.”
“I don't have to worry about how my movies sell because I'm not the guy in front.”

Source : "On the Cover: John Slattery" by Devin Friedman, www.gq.com. March 15, 2012.
“Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it.”

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