"Maybe we all want to burn off across the horizon, into space, perhaps, to take off into some unknown territory and meet ourselves out there."

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Source : Berlie Doherty (2001). “Dear Nobody”, p.5, Penguin UK

Berlie Doherty

#Space Quotes #Horizon Quotes #Want Quotes

“Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man.”
“My father, Norman Mailer, expected a lot from us and he really pushed us and you know one of his favorite lines was, "If you think I'm being hard on you, wait until life hits you because life is a hell of a lot tougher than I am." And I took everything he said to heart. He taught me how to write, which was scary and intimidating and hard, but ultimately one of the biggest gifts I could have ever asked for.”
“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.”

Source : "Fictional character: Henry Chinaski". "Factotum", www.imdb.com. 2005.
“As part of Depeche Mode, I don't think it's right for me to be using my own songs for a solo project. I'm not a very prolific songwriter, so I keep those for Depeche Mode.”
“So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.”
“He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great deal in a desultory manner, without any scheme of study, as chance threw books in his way, and inclination directed him through them.”
“The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.”
“What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory quality of human time and the brevity of human life - the necessity to love.”

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