"I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone."

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Night Quotes #Skulls Quotes #Stage Quotes

“We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.”
“I am best described as just a guy with a very large bump of curiosity and a gambling instinct.”
“I am concerned about any attrition in customer traffic at Starbucks, but I don't want to use the economy, commodity prices or consumer confidence as an excuse.”
“I'm still kind of a hapless character in my everyday life. But when it comes to the writing, my influences are very old influences. I love American music of absolutely all stripes, including show tunes, advertising jingles, theme tunes from quiz shows, all kinds of American music.”
“No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people.”

Source : Lysander Spooner (1852). “An Essay on the Trial by Jury”, p.19
“For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the year, a violent preamble to a prostrate Sabbath. Piled up passions were exploded on Saturday night, and the effect of a week's monotonous graft in the factory was swilled out of your system in a burst of goodwill. You followed the motto of 'be drunk and be happy,' kept your crafty arms around female waists, and felt the beer going beneficially down into the elastic capacity of your guts.”

Source : Alan Sillitoe (1987). “Every Day of the Week: An Alan Sillitoe Reader”
“Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little?”
“Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it”

Source : Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Living to Tell the Tale”, p.6, Penguin UK

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