"What you fear your whole life comes to pass. You end up living toward it, you spend your life running from it but your foot is nailed to the sidewalk. You circle around it until you wear yourself own."

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Source : Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.168, Faber & Faber

Nick Flynn

#Running Quotes #Circles Quotes #Feet Quotes

“Physiognomy is often a great falsifier, though as a rule it is honest enough.”
“I've enjoyed the accommodations offered by police departments from Florida to Hawaii. Any time I saw a badge, something in me would snap.”

Source : "Somebody to Love?". Book by Grace Slick, 1998.
“The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.”
“If you want to swim across the English Channel from England to France - you have to leave your doubt on the beach in England.”
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.”
“I don't know what he has. A pulled groin. A hip flexor. I don't know. A pulled something. I never pulled anything. You can't pull fat.”
“Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird.”
“God looks out for fools and babies.”

Source : Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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