"We talked, she and I. She asked about my work and it was a pretense, she was not interested in my work. And when I answered, it was a pretense. I was not interested in my work either. There was only one thing that interested us, and she knew it. She had made it plain by her coming."

-- John Fante

#Made Quotes #Not Interested Quotes #Pretense Quotes

“The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.”
“The progress of science still depends on "a few people of vision".”

Source : Lewis M. Branscomb (1997). “Confessions of a Technophile”, p.3, Springer Science & Business Media
“We've become obsessed with beauty and the fountain of youth and, frankly, I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.”
“If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.”
“I found myself thinking a lot about my own spirituality. What it means to be Jewish, what it means to forgive, what it means to sacrifice, but mostly what it means to be alive, how to be a better person, how not to make the mistakes my parents had made. I guess that's what one might typically call a midlife crisis.”
“Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.”

Source : "Basics Design 01: Format: Second Edition" by Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris, A&C Black, (p. 151), May 1, 2012.
“I don't know -- maybe the world has two different kinds of people, and for one kind the world is this completely logical, rice pudding place, and for the other it's all hit-or-miss macaroni gratin.”
“In Alexander's life there was one thread that could not be broken by death, by distance, by time, by war. Could not be broken. As long as I am in the world, she said with her breath and her body, as long as I am, you are permanent, soldier.”

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