"Home is where the heart is or where you bury the ones you want to eat later."

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Source : Rob Thurman (2012). “Doubletake: A Cal Leandros Novel”, p.173, Penguin

Rob Thurman

#Home Quotes #Heart Quotes #Want Quotes

“Doubtless almost any intense emotion may open our 'inward eye' to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it for some people. The beauties of nature or the exhilaration of artistic creation does it for others. Probably any high experience may momentarily stretch our souls up on tiptoe, so that we catch a glimpse of that marvelous beauty which is always there, but which we are not often tall enough to perceive.”
“Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.”
“I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.”
“Retirement, it seems, is the final fling. The love boat, the trip-around-the-world.”
“When you're watching, I find two things happen. You either watch a film and it's really good and then you think, "Why can't I do that?" Or you watch a film and it's not good, and you think, "Why am I doing this?" So either way, it feels like being at work.”
“Every human being should know two languages: the language of society and the language of signs. One serves to communicate with other people, the other serves to understand God's messages.”
“I've seen quite a bit of the world, but I really like Sweden and feel like I could live there some day.”
“Reapportionment is not friendly to a lot of communities and it hasn't been too friendly to mine.”

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