"there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home."

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Source : Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Jon McGregor

#Laughter Quotes #Eye Quotes #Home Quotes

“I'd always enjoyed acting at high school, and I was all lined up to do an honours degree course in biology at a Canadian university, and at the eleventh hour the drama teacher I had said, 'You know, you'll get a lot more girls if you go into acting,' and that kinda sold it.”
“You are being programmed all day, every day. You can't stop it, but you can determine if the programming is positive or negative.”
“There are three levels of happiness: the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life.”

Source : Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.260, Broadway Books
“The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.”
“To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy and human rights.”
“A real possibility now exists for a Government that is not led by either Fine Gael or Fianna FÃ¡il”
“I grew up in rural Arizona. My dad ran a general store.”

Source : "Democrats Split Over More Spending?". "Your World With Neil Cavuto", www.foxnews.com. September 8, 2010.
“Writing isnâ€™t a career choice. Itâ€™s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.”

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