"lonely people are always up in the middle of the night."

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Source : Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.148, W. W. Norton & Company

Nicole Krauss

#Lonely Quotes #Night Quotes #People Quotes

“Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.”
“The more you try to control something, the more it controls you. Free yourself, and let things take their own natural course.”
“I teach self-reliance, the world's most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, itâ€™s seditious. But itâ€™s peaceful sedition.”

Source : "Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com.
“I am as sure as I am of the fact of Christ's reign, that a comprehensive and centralised system of national education, separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most appalling enginery for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief and of anti-social nihilistic ethics, social and political, which this sin-rent world has ever seen.”
“I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.”

Source : Interview with Michael Carlson, Crime Time, 2001.
“Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.”

Source : Flora Thompson (2008). “The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927”
“The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.”
“Souls are punished when they have gone forth from the body, some wandering among us, some going to hot or cold places of the earth, some harassed by spirits. Under all circumstances they suffer with the irrational part of their nature, with which they also sinned. For its sake there subsists that shadowy body which is seen about graves, especially the graves of evil livers.”

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