"He wanted this someone to see how much he hurt."

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Jonathan Franzen

#Hurt Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.”
“I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.”
“For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions”
“I kept thinking my father would come back, But he never did.”
“Perhaps the difference between a professor and a bus driver is that the professor can say stupid things with complete authority while the bus driver is not authorized to make brilliant insights.”

Source : Les Back (2007). “The art of listening”, Berg Publishers
“Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.”
“As a person who has a pretty short attention span I think of music like that, completely. That's why I can quite happily change genres mid-song.”
“When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.”

Source : Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

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