"I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other."

-- M.I.A.

#Bridges Quotes #East Quotes #Want Quotes

“you have not a boat of your own, that is just it; that is what women always suffer from; they have to steer, but the craft is some one else's, and the haul too.”
“Death is the road to awe.”

Source : "Fictional character: Lord of Xibalba". "The Fountain", www.imdb.com. 2006.
“But things worked out. Everything works out. Though sometimes they work out sideways.”

Source : Knut Hamsun (2011). “The Ring is Closed”, p.71, Souvenir Press
“My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work.”
“There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.”
“I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.”
“Christianity cannot erase man's need for pleasure, nor can it eradicate the various sources of pleasure. What it can do, however, and what it has been extremely effective in accomplishing, is to inculcate guilt in connection with pleasure. The pursuit of pleasure, when accompanied by guilt, becomes a means of perpetuating chronic guilt, and this serves to reinforce one's dependence on God.”
“I can start with the idea of taking until you can take off, through the idea that all of my writing foregrounds the idea of how I'm taking from my own life. I'm stealing from my own life in a way, and from the people around me, but in service of getting somewhere else. I'm starting with an autobiographical impulse, to get a better vantage on the circumstances of the life that I happen to be in at the moment and how that life connects to others.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com

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