"I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before any of us could even imagine such a feat was possible."

-- Aleksandar Hemon

#Long Quotes #Able Quotes #Becoming Quotes

“Tom Carnegie will never be replaced.”
“I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession: all I ever wanted was to be myself.”
“To take another breath, we must first exhale. When we have breathed out and emptied our lungs, we can breathe in again.”
“The tools of social networking: These are the digital campfires around which the audience gathers to hear our story.”
“In a mucked up lovely river, I cast my little fly. I look at that river and smell it And it makes me want to cry. Oh to clean our dirty planet, Now there's a noble wish, And I'm puttin' my shoulder to the wheel 'Cause I wanna catch some fish.”
“The greatest accomplishment of a bartender lies in his ability to exactly suit his customer. . .”
“I'm just a huge fan of Joe Carnahan. He's such a charismatic individual and somebody that just applies every part of himself to the project he's in.”
“Why, when I was a child, I didn't say, as most children do, that I was going to become an actress. I felt that I was an actress and no one could have convinced me that I wasn't!”

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