"To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely."

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Source : Peter Carey (2010). “Oscar and Lucinda”, p.261, Faber & Faber

Peter Carey

#Lonely Quotes #Art Quotes #Being Lonely Quotes

“Take some time and educate your mind, in the long run I'm sure you're fine.”
“Whoa, Rebecca," Talia said smiling even wider, "Walking on the wild side, are we?" Raisa seemed to think the situation needed more explaining. "He - uh - I'm tutoring him." "She is," Han said solemnly. "She's very good. I'm learning a lot." Pearlie snickered. "What's she teaching you?" "Well," Han said, "we're jumping around a lot.”
“I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the stellar Michelle Obama setting the standard for American women. I simply cannot say it enough: look how far we've come.”
“Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.”
“The whole attempt to advance the kind of consumer society that depends for its growth on the ceaseless stimulation of unlimited covetousness among the rich, while the poor majority rot in their poverty-this is surely something against which a Christian should be a nonconformist.”
“Listening is the key to everything good in music.”
“Right now in my life I spend much time dreaming over my visions of faith. I know this works. I would be a fool to ignore it. Remember, one of the mightiest keys in the Kingdom of Heaven is faith. Vision is a major part of faith, for we walk by faith and not by sight. Faith is directly contrasted to natural eye sight.”
“Love is like the lightning, and your maturity is signaled by the extent to which you can accept the dangers and the power and the beauty of love.”

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