"There is no one to tell this to and yet it seems very important to get this right. The reality and what it is like to escape it. That even now it is sometimes too beautiful to bear."

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Source : Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.50, Vintage

Peter Heller

#Life Quotes #Beautiful Quotes #Reality Quotes

“The idea that people can behave naturally, without resorting to an artificial code tacitly agreed upon by their society, is as silly as the idea that they can communicate by a spoken language without commonly accepted semantic and grammatical rules.”
“Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.”
“Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature.”
“If Iran does not change its policies, it won't be able to integrate into the international community and will become even more isolated than it is now, which likely will have a negative impact on the Iranian people.”
“Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.”

Source : "In other words ..." by Nigel Rees, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2006.
“At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation?”
“Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want.”
“There is no folly like the folly of the wise.”

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