"In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry."

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Nicole Krauss

#Tables Quotes #Hungry Quotes #Refuse Quotes

“I've chosen jobs that were sexy because I wanted to do them.”
“The secular humanist, although he would never dream of committing the social faux pas of calling a black man a negro, feels perfectly free to castigate Christians and their leaders in any way he likes.”

Source : Frank Schaeffer (1982). “A time for anger: the myth of neutrality”, Good News Publishers
“Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.”
“A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which has recognized its ethos, and come to terms with the past and the present, with religion and science. With modernism and mysticism, with materialism and spirituality; a society free of tension, a society rich in culture. Such a society cannot come with hocus-pocus formulas and with fraud. It has to flow from the depth of a divine search.”

Source : "My Dearest Daughter: A letter from the Death Cell". Book by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, p. 15, 2007.
“There have been misperceptions that we're trying to make all the information open on Facebook, and that's completely false. There are big buckets of information that we recommend that you share with only your friends privately. Then some of the more basic information, we recommend that that's visible to everyone.”
“I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some of my own music videos and got to experiment in other areas of expression.”
“It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.”
“It is the month of June, The month of leaves and roses, When pleasant sights salute the eyes And pleasant scents the noses.”

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