"The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain."

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Source : "Brick Lane: A Novel". Book by Monica Ali, 2003.

Monica Ali

#Getting Older Quotes #Needs Quotes #Certain Quotes

“All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.”
“Theoretically, we Mennonites do not even know what we look like, since a focus on our personal appearance is vainglorious. Our antipathy to vainglory explains the decision of many of us to wear those frumpy skirts and the little doilies on our heads, a decision we must have arrived at only by collectively determining not to notice what we had put on that morning.”
“Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.”
“Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad.”

Source : Jacob August Riis (1973). “Jacob Riis revisited: poverty and the slum in another era”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs
“If you look at a magazine and something catches your eye, are you not going to open it up to see what's inside?”
“I didn't fight or shame my thoughts, I questioned them, and they stopped shaming me.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 08, 2011
“He's the sort of player whose brain doesn't always know where his legs are carrying him.”
“Every song is like a painting.”

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