"I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me."

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Source : Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.165, New Directions Publishing

Djuna Barnes

#Strange Quotes #Forgotten Quotes #Said Quotes

“We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.”

Source : Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.150, Vintage
“I donâ€™t know whatâ€™s the matter with me, why Iâ€™m so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.”
“For every stone that [Pablo Escobar] threw, he would get many thrown back at him and us, his family, because we were the most vulnerable. In these types of extreme situations, we learned about the consequences of violence and that is why we did not go down the same path.”
“How can you write if you can't cry?”

Source : Ring Lardner (1977). “The Lardners: my family remembered”, HarperCollins Publishers
“You search for God, and seek to find Him here. Or you seek to find Him there. Why need you to look in the corners of the room when He entirely fills the room?”
“Rumors spread faster than news and news spreads faster than the happenings”
“I want kids who are going to go out there and compete, lay it all on the table. I think the big thing about this game is you have to care a lot about it.”
“We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.”

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