"After most deaths, I imagine, the awfulness lies in how everythingâ€™s changedâ€¦.thereâ€™s a hole. Itâ€™s person-shaped and it follows you everywhereâ€¦. For us what was killing was how nothing had changed. Weâ€™d been waiting to be transformed, and now here we were, back in our old life."

-- Elizabeth McCracken

#Lying Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Imagine Quotes

“I really do think that cooking is very important. It's really important for the farmers because it means you're going to be buying real food and not processed food, so that means the farmers will capture more of your food dollar.”
“So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?”
“What you are is a complicated girl with simple needs. You need your books and time to read, and you need a few friends and you need someone-not to take care of you, but to care for you. If you have all those things, you'll always be alright.”
“Math is easy; design is hard.”
“To what gods is sacrificed that rarest and sweetest thing upon earth, friendship? To vanity and to interest.”
“Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.”

Source : John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.16, Library of Alexandria
“Even genius is tied to profit.”
“Not all Muslims become involved in acts of violence. Yet all might be held culpable. THis is because that section of Muslim--in fact, the majority--who are not personally involved, neither disown those members of their community who are engaged in violence, nor even condemn them. In such a case, according to the Islamic Shariah itself, if the involved Muslims are directly responsible, the uninvolved Muslims are also indirectly responsible. (p. 91)”

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