"It's been a long time since I've been me."

-- Fernando Pessoa

#Time Quotes #Long Quotes

“My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.”
“The early ascendancy of leisure as a means of reputability is traceable to the archaic distinction between noble and ignoble employments. Leisure is honourable and becomes imperative partly because it shows exemption from ignoble labour.”

Source : Thorstein Veblen (2012). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.64, Courier Corporation
“Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind.”

Source : Anne Rice (1996). “Servant of the Bones”, Random House Large Print Publishing
“I'll save that for Mrs. Battier.”
“If we gather more and more data and establish more and more associations, however, we will not finally find that we know something. We will simply end up having more and more data and larger sets of correlations.”

Source : Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Theory of International Politics”, p.4, Waveland Press
“As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an influx of illegal immigrants in search of employment.”
“Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors of life and death assume their proper values. Thinking becomes clear because there are no earthly foibles or embellishments to confuse it.”
“The birds brought seeds & flowers & bits of brightly colored string & placed them in her hair while she slept so she would remember the wild joy of spring when she finally awoke.”

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