"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living."

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Source : Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Jonathan Safran Foer

#Life Quotes #I Hate You Quotes #Weight Quotes

“If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that.”
“And I'll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.”

Source : Song: My Friends, Album: End of the Summer
“I do firmly believe that universal forces are at work that pull us inexorably toward the deserving results of our actions.”
“It's easier to do Shakespeare than Spelling, and I know that sounds crazy, because the challenge of Shakespeare is living up to Shakespeare, living up to that word, not failing, you know, where with Aaron Spelling it's like, just try to look good. Or maybe don't use Spelling there, that's bad. No - you can. He's dead.”
“The Replacements are the foundation for a lot of what came after in alternative and college rock. Let It Be is their best record and has the most diverse collection of songs. Some pop stuff, some heavy stuff, and some real moments of beauty like 'Sixteen Blue' and 'Androgynous.' It's a record I always go back to.”

Source : "The Hold Steady's 10 Rock Albums Every Man Should Own" by Mike Ayers, www.esquire.com. March 25, 2014.
“Let us not take what we eat for granted; let us view our meals as an opportunity to give our Lord praise.”
“Abandoning a task that is futile and pointless is not giving up.”
“Our prime minister could embrace and forgive the people who killed our beloved sons and fathers, and so he should, but he could not, would not, apologise to the Aboriginal people for 200 years of murder and abuse. The battle against the Turks, he said in Gallipoli, was our history, our tradition. The war against the Aboriginals, he had already said at home, had happened long ago. The battle had made us; the war that won the continent was best forgotten”

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