"I like him. I have a weakness for losers. Invalids, foreigners, the fat boy of the class, the ones nobody ever wants to dance with. My heart beats for them. Maybe because I've always known that in some way I will forever be one of them."

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Source : Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

Peter HÃ¸eg

#Heart Quotes #Boys Quotes #Class Quotes

“Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside of a bush in late summer, viewing it as a sign of the unexpected munificence of a divine creator, but we became modern when we gave up on awaiting sporadic gifts from above and sought to render any pleasing sensation immediately and repeatedly available.”
“Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.”
“Whenever I see a cut of a film and something is gone, I don't notice it unless it obviously should have been kept.”
“Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.”
“Democracy is not an incident that happens overnight, nor a gift that America can give to the world. It is a culture which needs peace to evolve.”
“I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.”
“He who cannot howl will not find his pack.”

Source : Charles Simic (1990). “Selected Poems, 1963-1983”, George Braziller
“The life of Lincoln should never be passed by in silence by young or old. He touched the log cabin and it became the palace in which greatness was nurtured. He touched the forest and it became to him a church in which the purest and noblest worship of God was observed. His occupation has become associated in our minds with the integrity of the life he lived. In Lincoln there was always some quality that fastened him to the people and taught their to keep time to the music of his heart.”

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