"I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running."

-- Edward Albee

#Running Quotes #Cities Quotes #Beckett Quotes

“A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.”
“It was like a miracle. I'm just feeling fabulous. What's incredible is someone has given your life back. I'm out in the garden today. This time last year I was looking out a window at a hospital.”
“A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes”
“Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.”
“There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.”

Source : Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“People who get to the top of any organisation are generally dysfunctional human beings who are overachieving, overcompensating or overbearing.”
“Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.”

Source : Henry Fuseli (1831). “The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli”, p.63
“It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going to take a while to get us out. We lost eight million jobs, we saw a financial system near collapse, we have a continuing housing crisis that we're making progress on dealing with.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 17, 2010.

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