"What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism."

-- Pauline Kael

#Television Quotes #Knees Quotes #This Generation Quotes

“We receive and we lose, and we must try to achieve gratitude; and with that gratitude to embrace with whole hearts whatever of life that remains after the losses.”

Source : Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.143, Open Road Media
“I'm happy to help people.”
“By constantly keep one's attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.”
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
“I like to look at the songs like they're little movies.”
“I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.”
“As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means.”
“The meager satisfaction that man can extract from reality leaves him starving.”

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