"Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music."

-- Allan Bloom

#Addiction Quotes #This Generation Quotes #Generations Quotes

“We are stronger than we've credited ourselves to be. We have been the victims and the witnesses. We have said a lifetime of good-byes.”

Source : Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.338, Simon and Schuster
“I've made a profit from everything I have done in life.”
“Hopelessness may be the saddest word in our language. Despair is the enemy of our souls. It can paralyze us, halt our progress, and cause us to lose our way. But hope awakens us like a light shining in the darkness. We can endure all things when our hope is centered in one who will never fail us-our Savior, Jesus Christ, who is the light of the world.”
“An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body, I could defeat ugliness. A man isnâ€™t tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.”
“A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.”
“There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.”
“Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up.”
“Why did I start with them? Why do any of us choose one company over another as an employer? The money? At the beginning they all offer more or less the same and no one know how it will go after that. I guess it is often not so much your prospects at a particular firm, because these are essentially unknowable, but whether people will think you have done well to get the job there, that determines you choice. That was largely it in my case. It was really the prestige. They gave good letterhead.”

Source : Elliot Perlman (1999). “The Reasons I Won't be Coming: Stories”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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