"Recreational talking is, along with private singing, one of our saddest recent losses. Like singing, talking has become a job for trained professionals, who are paid considerable sums of money to do it on television and radio while we sit silently listening or, if we're truly lonely and determined, call the station and sit holding the phone waiting for a chance to contribute our two cents' worth."

-- Barbara Holland

#Lonely Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Loss Quotes

“I think that when the world feels safe and secure, we probably feel more that way in our personal lives. What goes on in the world affects us, unequivocally.”

Source : Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 8, 2011.
“Jewish suffering is also a political factor, and whoever says that Hitler diminished our strength, is not telling the truth.”
“My life isn't interesting! It's my mom. You need to write her life and put me in it. I'm a cameo in her life.”
“A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.”
“It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened. Some tangled knots only made sense once unraveled.”

Source : Hugh Howey (2013). “Wool”, p.479, Simon and Schuster
“Do the job first. Worry about the clearance later.”
“It took most people a lifetime to join the human race.”

Source : Hortense Calisher (2013). “Standard Dreaming: A Novella”, p.47, Open Road Media
“I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.”

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