"I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people."

-- Khaled Hosseini

#Book Quotes #People Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“If the very old will remember, the very young will listen.”
“Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.”

Source : Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.71, Grove Press
“I started as a teenager going up on commercials.”
“No matter how much we know about the other person, there is always something going on in that other heart and that other head that we don't know but can only ponder. And no matter how we explain ourselves to someone else, no matter how open we are, there is always still something inexplicable, something hidden and unknown in us, too.”

Source : Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.95, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.”

Source : Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.309, Vintage
“It's a date," Leo repeats, and we shake on it.Leo's mother sticks her head in the door. "You guys are too young to be dating!" "Mom!"Leo cries,turning bright red.”
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
“I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head.”

Source : "Plastic Man". Interview with Marc Weidenbaum, disquiet.com. October 14, 2001.

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