"You notice. And noticing, you live."

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Source : John Graves (2016). “From a Limestone Ledge: Some Essays and Other Ruminations about Country Life in Texas”, p.163, University of Texas Press

John Graves

#Life Quotes #Live Life Quotes #Noticing Quotes

“I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.”
“I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.”
“I know I'm intellectually capable of finding a series of things and making hundreds of millions. I have to get there and do it. Carefully. Legally.”
“The United Nations is useless...and also harmful. It is a land that flowers demagoguery with a bunch of newborn countries, devoid of any tradition.”

Source : "Memories of an unfinished war: Canada, the United States and the decolonization process in Angola" by Manuel Francisco Gomes, Collaborator Alberto João Jardim; Published by Edições Colibri, (p. 153), 2006.
“My mom on Pitbull: 'I'm glad he's a star, b/c if he wasn't and I just saw him on the street I'd think he was going to steal from me.'”
“The answer is blowin' in the wind.”
“I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.”
“After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.”

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