"There are too many confusing things present. Things I know. Thoughts I have. Sarcasm. Things I think I ought to be doing and places I ought to be going. Always other places."

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Source : Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.33, Canongate Books

Erlend Loe

#Sarcasm Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Confusing Quotes

“Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about - about what the issues really are - and so often it takes them rather a long time to recognize that someone with a somewhat different approach (or destination, or starting point) is making a contribution.”
“Even though he lived on the beach in college, he didn't have a tan. Now that's a serious player!”
“The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished.”

Source : Ming-Dao Deng (2013). “Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony”, p.8, Harper Collins
“But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.”
“Happiness happens when your consciousness is not dominated by addictions and demands - and you experience life as a parade of preferences.”
“Such a thing as the child left alone to die in the hallway was unknown on the marsh. But here, in the dawn, was mortality itself. In the city were places to fall from which one could never emerge -- dark dreams and slow death, the death of children, suffering without grace or redemption, ultimate and eternal loss. The memory of the child stayed with him. But that was not to be the end of it, for reality went around in a twisting ring. Even the irredeemable would be redeemed, and there was a balance for everything. There had to be.”
“When things are going well, I hate to quit.”
“Obviously the way people watch TV has changed so much, too, that it's not necessarily about the ratings anymore. There's a different kind of time lapse; you put it out there and people absorb it at their speed, not just on Monday night at eight.”

Source : "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.

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