"Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a channel of memory through which fierce and unrequited longings surge, longings that define and shape a whole life."

-- Michael Ignatieff

#Memories Quotes #Trying Quotes #Shapes Quotes

“I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish.”
“Clunk all wound up and ready to go!”
“The last time I saw Paris, her heart was warm and gay, I heard the laughter of her heart in every street cafÃ©.”

Source : "The Last Time I Saw Paris" (song) (1940)
“Take whatever cause for outward happiness you might have and take it within yourself, so that, if the sun should go out, you will not be any less happy; if the birds stop singing you will not be any less happy.”
“I toyed with making portraits based on people's discarded shopping lists found on the street, or old diaries bought on eBay, or other forms of borrowed stories. When I stumbled across the Missed Connections listings, I knew immediately I'd found it.”
“Reality is what one makes it. And the more negative reality one nurtures and creates, the more of it one has.”
“The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.”
“It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.”

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