"People who have experienced nothing love to tell stories while people who have experienced a great deal suddenly have no stories to tell at all."

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Source : Daniel Kehlmann (2010). “Fame: A Novel in Nine Episodes”, p.23, Vintage

Daniel Kehlmann

#People Quotes #Stories Quotes #Deals Quotes

“They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream.”

Source : "Vitae Summa Brevis" l. 5 (1896)
“Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.”
“I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.”
“In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag.”
“I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.”
“Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.”
“America has global trade with plenty of nations that provide inexpensive labor, but it's better for us when they're in our own hemisphere, rather than sending that business halfway around the world.”
“You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.”

Source : Sheila Heti (2012). “How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life”, p.98, Macmillan

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