"It's funny how you can think you know someone pretty well, and then something happens or they do something that makes you understand that you didn't really know them at all."

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Source : Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Sammy Keyes and the Dead Giveaway”, p.3, Yearling

Wendelin Van Draanen

#Thinking Quotes #Wells Quotes

“Who would have thought the bees would have been the first alien force to invade America?”
“The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.”

Source : Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.107, Univ of California Press
“The poem is a plank laid over the lion's den.”

Source : James K. Baxter, John Edward Weir (1979). “Collected poems”, Oxford University Press, USA
“Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.”
“At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.”
“I love to create magic - to put something together that's so unusual, so unexpected that it blows people's heads off. Something ahead of the times. Five steps ahead of what people are thinking.”
“There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act.”
“I believe that every life , irrespective of its events and setting, holds something of unique value, which it should be possible to communicate, if only one can first see one's experiences honestly and then set them down without too much dressing-up”

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