"Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldnâ€™t even begin to solve."

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Source : Kate Atkinson (2013). “Life After Life”, p.251, Random House

Kate Atkinson

#Loneliness Quotes #Solitude Quotes #Conundrums Quotes

“Jesus did not come to the Earth to start 285 squabbling denominations fighting over the Bible. How like the devil to divide Christians over the Bible.”
“To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.”
“When you ask for the house, car, cat, dog and all the fish when you're dealing with a player who's got questions about his health, no GM in his right mind is going to say yes and offer to clean the aquarium, too.”
“Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.”
“Sunday morning in America is the greatest hour of idolatry in the whole week. Why? Because most people who are even worshiping God, are worshiping a God they don't know. They're worshiping a god that looks more like Santa Claus than the God of Scripture. They're worshiping a god that is a figment of their own imagination. They created a god in their own likeness and they worship the god they've made.”
“Anyone who has ever accomplished anything of any consequence, didn't know how to get what they want, they only knew that they were going to get it. You don't know how to do something, until after you've done it. Our problem is, we set goals to do what we think we can do or what we've already done. There's no inspiration in that.”
“The behaviour of lovers is oscillating like the moon, and unpredictable as the weather...”
“You can have the top stars to bring the attention, you can have the best stadium, you can have the best facilities, you can have the most beautiful project in terms of marketing and all this kind of thing. But if you don't win... All the work these people are doing is forgotten.”

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