"Despite all their fears, we ask very little of the ones who never loved us. We do not ask for sympathy or pain or compassion. We simply want to know why."

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Source : Andrew Sean Greer (2007). “The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel”, p.120, Macmillan

Andrew Sean Greer

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“Ready to wrestle with my gorgeous boyfriend? Oh, IÂ´d say IÂ´m ready for that." Nora :D (p.375)”
“The trick of successful investors is to sell when they want to, not when they have to.”
“Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other.”
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”

Source : Italo Calvino (2017). “The Uses of Literature”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.”
“The Iraqis have a country that inherited cultures thousands of years old while the Americans have a culture only two hundred years old. Two hundred years will teach thousands of years!? Oh Americans, leave Iraq for its people.”

Source : "Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi Reacts to the Murder of Four Americans in Al-Fallujah". MEMRI TV, April 2004.
“I do think that we're pretty future-obsessed right now, and I think that capitalism works best when we have a very short memory of the past, when we can just go forward seamlessly into a future of ever-new products and ever-new experiences - even though they're exactly the same, just on a watch instead of on a phone or whatever.”
“Being a geek means you never have to play it cool about how much you like something.”

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