"I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life."

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Source : Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.84, W. W. Norton & Company

Nicole Krauss

#Life Quotes #Thinking Quotes #World Quotes

“You never know how bad a situation is going to be until you come out of it. But the nation has had two major hurricanes in [several] weeks, and we will be stronger because of it.”
“Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!”
“I believe that it is a whole lifetime of work on Shakespeare's part that enabled him to do what he did. But the question is how you can explain this whole lifetime in such a way to make it accessible and available to us, to me.”
“Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.”
“I don't know their names. Their names have been erased from my memory banks. If I tried to bring 'em back, I'd get shocked.”
“I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.”
“On a few words of what is real in the world I nourish myself. I defend myself against Whatever remains.”
“What I've kind of learned about comedy is that when comedy gets too expensive it might not be funny. Sometimes it's good to keep the conditions where you're pressed for time and it's just about getting the work done, as opposed to how much things are we eating on the set.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com

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