"I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it's a disquieting experience for a child. And what I would do was quickly unpack my books and go back to a book I knew well and make sure the same text and the same illustrations were there."

-- Alberto Manguel

#Children Quotes #Book Quotes #Night Quotes

“It was a sobering experience.”
“The game lends itself to fantasies about our abilities.”
“It's not like I'm hanging out at shopping malls or going to celebrity golf tournaments. I'm so in my own little world. I got my dog, my music, my brother, a couple of friends.”
“I believe in lust at first sight.And attraction.But not love.”
“I'm not ready to die. Period. To begin with, I cannot imagine a future without me in it. Can't do it.”

Source : Robert Schimmel, Alan Eisenstock (2008). “Cancer on Five Dollars a Day Chemo Not Included: How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life”, p.19, Da Capo Press
“Every day is a gift. That said, I've gotten some pretty shitty gifts over the years.”
“You think of yourself as an "individual person", with a unique and separate mind. You think you are born and you think you die. All your life you feel separate and alone. Sometimes desperately so. You fear death because you fear the loss of individuality. All this is an illusion. You, he, she, those things around you living or not, the stars and galaxies, the empty space in between- these are not distinct, separate objects. All is fundamentally entangled.”

Source : Douglas Preston (2009). “Blasphemy”, p.307, Pan Macmillan
“Hard work, studying and perseverance will get you no where in life......it's all about kissing ass”

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