"But we didn't, not in the moonlight, or by the phosphorescent lanterns of lightning bugs in your back yard, not beneath the constellations we couldn't see, let alone decipher, or in the dark glow that replaced the real darkness of night, a darkness already stolen from us, not with the skyline rising behind us while a city gradually decayed, not in the heat of summer while a Cold War raged, despite the freedom of youth and the license of first love-because of fate, karma, luck, what does it matter?-we made not doing it a wonder, and yet we didn't, we didn't, we never did."

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Source : Stuart Dybek (2004). “I Sailed with Magellan”, p.244, Macmillan

Stuart Dybek

#Love Quotes #Karma Quotes #Summer Quotes

“Neil Young and Barry Friedman had stolen a Buffalo Springfield sign off the steamroller for Barrys house. They put it up. We all looked at it on the wall and a light went off. That's how we came up with the name”
“The euro area must not be treated as an 'opt out' from the European Union.”
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
“I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.”
“Being the best right now doesn't do anything for my feathers.”
“So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.”
“Death is not a self-evident phenomenon. The margins between life and death are socially and culturally constructed, mobile, multiple, and open to dispute and reformulation.”

Source : Margaret M. Lock (2002). “Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death”, p.11, Univ of California Press

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