"So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence â€“ not sexual or political innocence but somehow a shared dream of what a city might at its best prove to be â€“ its inhabitants became, and have remained, an embittered and amnesiac race, wounded but unable to connect through memory to the moment of injury, unable to summon the face of their violator."

-- Thomas Pynchon

#Dream Quotes #Memories Quotes #Loss Quotes

“A boxer makes a comeback for two reasons: either heâ€™s broke or he needs the money.”
“Super-stardom doesn't scare or excite me. It's just another ingredient added to my world.”
“In that glorious day when we stand before our beloved Savior to report what we have done with His name, may we be able to declare: â€œI have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. I have honored Thy name.”
“You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair... People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.”
“Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes.”
“They [Christian rednecks] were so stupid that they couldn't pour piss out of a boot even if the instructions were printed on the bottom.”
“I think everybody involved in a movie thinks about the box office. It's the 'biz' part of showbiz.”
“There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.”

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