"Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills."

-- O. Henry

#Country Quotes #Moving Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I don't want you to think that I'm being willfully obtuse, but I've never really grasped how point of view could be regarded as a matter of choice independent of story. Point of view is intimately interwoven into the story that you want to tell - it is an aspect of it.”
“Manuals have their uses ... but they are not to be confused with living.”
“As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the human heart. People fretted over missed chances, over inefficient days; they worried constantly about how long they would live, because counting lifeâ€™s moments had led, inevitably, to counting them down. Soon, in every nation and in every language, time became the most precious commodity.”
“Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.”
“It would be very hard to bring a wife to Afghanistan. In America, I'd have no problem with her doing whatever she wanted, but in Afghanistan, that's not the case.”

Source : "A Tale of Two Countries". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. December 2005.
“I call to the spirits of other lands to make fecund my existence”
“Whenever you have an ex, and they're like, 'I hope we can still be friends!' and you weren't friends before you started dating, then what do you go back to, really?”
“Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back.”

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