"To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost."

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Source : Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.40, Macmillan

Peter HÃ¸eg

#Want Quotes #Lost Quotes

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.”
“The best comics editors have the smallest egos. The worst ones feel like they have to justify their salaries by making changes just so they can leave their fingerprints. Every creative medium has those guys, and they're all loathsome.”
“People who don't listen make me annoyed. That's the normal stuff, isn't it?”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.”

Source : Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.217
“Dirk Gently has been a long passion (my career started with Douglas Adams and my stage adaptation of Dirk Gently) .”

Source : "Nailed It!: David and Kyriazis on 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency'". Interview with Keith Silva, comicsbulletin.com. March 8, 2016.
“When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period”

Source : John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”
“Family life got better and we got our car back - as soon as we put 'I love Mom' on the license plate.”
“I have many, many voices. I talk to my dogs like in the strangest voices you can imagine.”

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