"If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever."

-- Anne Lamott

#Forever Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“Diplomacy is, perhaps, one element of the U.S. government that should not be subject to the demands of 'open government'; whenever it works, it is usually because it is done behind closed doors. But this may be increasingly hard to achieve in the age of Twittering bureaucrats.”
“The girls look like they are a band already - the boys don't”
“Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.”
“The demands of the economy, and more recently those of political correctness and the diktat against ever offending anyone, are not conducive to a classroom or university seminar climate in which genuinely free and critical reflection on how to live prospers.”
“In New York, the buildings are like mountains in some ways, but they are only alive because of the people living in them. Real mountains are alive all over.”

Source : Silas House, Neela Vaswani (2012). “Same Sun Here”, p.7, Candlewick Press
“Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.”
“I donâ€™t think â€˜science fictionâ€™ is a very good name for it, but itâ€™s the name that weâ€™ve got. It is different from other kinds of writing, I suppose, so it deserves a name of its own. But where I can get prickly and combative is, if Iâ€™m just called a sci-fi writer. Iâ€™m not. Iâ€™m a novelist and poet. Donâ€™t shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I donâ€™t fit, because Iâ€™m all over. My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.”
“You are the smartest children i know. You just don't beleive it.”

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