"Remember this... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important."

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Source : Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story”, p.21, Granta Books

Gary Shteyngart

#Important Quotes #Nostalgia Quotes #Remember Quotes

“HOW do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each his own, the saying goes, so WHY push to attain an ideal state of being that no two random people will agree is WHERE you want to be? Faultless. Finished. Incomparable. People can never be these, and anyway, WHEN did creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person WHO lives inside your skin? The outside belongs to others. Only you should decide for you - WHAT is perfect.”
“The funny thing for me is, I have never lived in a network world.”
“It is impossible to imagine existence void of any intelligence.”
“You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.”
“Kids learn more from example than from anything you say; I'm convinced they learn very early not to hear anything you say, but to watch what you do.”
“It's important to continue to change and evolve in the way that the comics change and evolve.”
“Dance, which displays the body in public, is one of the channels of communication used to pass along important social skills from one generation to the next.”

Source : Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books
“Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.”

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