"From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended."

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Source : "Atonement". Book by Ian Mcewan, www.sfgate.com. 2001.

Ian Mcewan

#Simple Quotes #Perspective Quotes #Intimate Quotes

“I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.”

Source : "Making Work Meaningful: Towards a Soul-based Workplace", www.pbs.org.
“Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.”
“Quite honestly, it's too tough to get your movies made and then also to get out there and sell them.”

Source : "Ed Burns, Lead Singer for the Indie-Rock Movies of Our Time". Interview with Matt Sullivan, www.esquire.com. December 22, 2011.
“Oppression is allowed to survive because people don't like to talk about it or about acts like what happened. We're hoping to counter some of that with the help of this banner.”
“Quotations are powerful tools. Michel de Montaigne, the father of all essayists, observed, 'I quote others only to better express myself.' Intrepid quotations detective Ralph Keyes helps us to discover the clear truth about exactly what was said and who exactly said it.”
“Trying to be a leader, you've got to be really sure of what you're doing and you've got to guide people the right way.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“If you see a theme that you might want to take a photo of, you sort of stand there for an hour waiting for it to resolve, waiting for the geometry of a theme to be exactly what you want them to be. That was my process to get photos.”
“All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.”

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