"When I'm talking to someone I think 'can I use this dialogue in a book,'" said Luis. "If the answer is no I try talking to someone else."

-- Tao Lin

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Talking Quotes

“There's a lot of not caring that goes under the name of minding your own business.”
“Somewhere under the stars God has a job for you to do and nobody else can do it.”
“Love the people you think you'd want to be with in the hereafter.”

Source : FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Feb 12, 2013
“I think we waste a lot of time trying to convince other people that we're right. A lot of times we don't actually care what another person thinks, we just want to say what we think. To hear it reflected back to us and that we're okay, to hear that we have been understood and that we're correct - so that we can continue to be who we are in the ways we've been being, and we have nothing to feel bad about and everything is just fine. Even if what we're talking about is, like, police brutality.”
“no matter how hard and faithfully we may try we can never compensate another for some lack in his or her life.”

Source : Rachel Field (1946). “And Now Tomorrow”
“Although I have no objection to accepting the existence of relatively constant psychic contents that survive personal ego, it must always be born in mind that we have no way of knowing what these contents are actually like "as such." All we can observe is their effect on other living people, whose spiritual level and whose personal unconscious crucially influence the way these contents actually manifest themselves.”

Source : "Atom and Archetype" edited by Carl Alfred Meier, translated by David Roscoe, 1992.
“Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away is me: hurt it and you are hurting me.”

Source : Edward Hoagland (1995). “The Tugman's Passage”
“Everything is so convenient in New York,”

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