"That night I looked up at those same stars, but I didn't want any of those things. I didn't want Egypt, or France, or far-flung destinations. I just wanted to go back to my life from my childhood, just to visit it, and touch it, and to convince myself that yes, it had been real."

-- Jenny Lawson

#Stars Quotes #Real Quotes #Night Quotes

“Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.”
“There is an ancient Indian saying that something lives only as long as the last person who remembers it. My people have come to trust memory over history. Memory, like fire, is radiant and immutable while history serves only those who seek to control it, those who douse the flame of memory in order to put out the dangerous fire of truth. Beware these men for they are dangerous themselves and unwise. Their false history is written in the blood of those who might remember and of those who seek the truth.”
“The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.”
“He who protests is an enemy; he who opposes is a corpse.”
“What we do not understand, we cannot control.”

Source : Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”
“Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.”
“I think we may be seeing the beginnings of a resurgence of civic-mindedness in this country. Hopefully the younger generations, which came out in record numbers during the last presidential election, will pass their enthusiasm on to their children.”
“It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.”

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