"How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?"

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Source : Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.56, Vintage

Leonard Cohen

#Yesterday Quotes

“Littlefinger looked like a boy who had just taken a furtive bite from a honeycomb. He was TRYING to watch for bees, but the honey was so sweet.”
“We do a lot of bird-watching up in the country, but we almost never have a chance to people-watch. There simply aren't enough human beings up here: there is nowhere you can park yourself with a cup of coffee and observe the species on parade.”
“Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.”
“When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won.”

Source : "I think I'm sane" by Sam Wollaston, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2007.
“I'm Galladon, from the sovereign realm of Duladel. I'm most recently from Elantris, land of sludge, insanity, and eternal perdition. Nice to meet you.”
“Gun control is part and parcel of the ongoing collectivist effort to eviscerate individual sovereignty and replace it with dependence upon and allegiance to the state.”

Source : "Gun Control Tramples On The Certain Virtues Of A Heavily Armed Citizenry". www.forbes.com. December 28, 2012.
“Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.”
“You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.”

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