"I had been going out to Orient for several years."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Christopher Bollen

#Years Quotes #Going Out Quotes

“I hold that all the evil we know on earth finds in this violence done to love its true and legitimate birth.”

Source : George Arnold (1866). “Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems”, p.54
“It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.”
“there was a time before you but I can't remember it now a time before your beauty and I were formally introduced I'm sure I lived without you but I don't remember how can't imagine living without these feelings you've produced just one glance and my life was redrawn just one word and my vocabulary changed I asked the time and you said 'what's the hurry?' you asked my name and I almost forgot”
“If a woman wants to fly, first of all she must, of course, abandon skirts and don a knickerbocker uniform.”
“In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the external world upon the human brain.”
“Soon it began to drizzle for the second time that night. The drops grew heavier and became visible in the headlights of the cars. It was said by some of the police on the scene that God was crying for the girl in the garden. To others, it was only rain. (final lines)”

Source : "The night gardener". Book by George Pelecanos, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2006.
“I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.”

Source : "A gentleman and a player" by Brian Oliver, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2008.
“Terrorism drives out all normal human activity before it, defining life in its own sick terms, if it can. So, a baseball game on a sultry Texas night before a huge crowd, with everyone feeling perfectly safe, is exactly what terrorists hate. Which is why it is so important to resume such athletic rituals - which symbolize stability, confidence and order - as soon as is reasonably possible.”

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