"By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place. Â I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family. Â But no one is offering any clear information."

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Source : Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.51, Faber & Faber

Nick Flynn

#Offering Quotes #Apples Quotes #World Quotes

“I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
“Television has changed how we choose our leaders. It elected Ronald Reagan and a host of Kennedy-look-alike congressmen with blow-dried hair and gleaming teeth. It destroyed Senator Joe McCarthy by showing him in action and it created Jerry Falwell.”
“I do have the cheesiest of cheesy chat-up lines used on me.”

Source : "Jesse Metcalfe on sex symbol status: 'There is definitely more to me'" by Ryan Love, www.digitalspy.com. August 23, 2011.
“I don't have time to worry about looking cool.”
“I think it's sad when people stop dreaming, or start losing hope. Because holding onto the bonkers dream might just turn out to be the most marvellous thing you ever did.”
“Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?”
“Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it.”
“3D really altered the way I shot the movie completely, and it was exciting because, after 20 years of filmmaking, I felt like I was making my first movie, all over again.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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