"I'd never really found a place in the outside world, but had stayed away too long to fit in at home."

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Source : Chris Offutt (2003). “The Same River Twice: A Memoir”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

Chris Offutt

#Home Quotes #Long Quotes #World Quotes

“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, not forgetting to leave others be as you would have them leave you be.”
“There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.”

Source : "Fictional character: Citizen G'Kar". TV Series "Babylon 5" ("Z'ha'dum", 1996), www.imdb.com. (1994–1998).
“A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.”

Source : Hortense Calisher (1971). “Queenie: a novel”, McNally & Loftin Publishers
“When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life itself is, and of what you in life are, and might become. Later.. later there is more uncertainty, more overlapping, more backtracking, more false memories. Back then, you can remember your short life in its entirety. Later, the memory becomes a thing of shreds and patches.”
“The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.”
“It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.”
“I don't know what love means.”
“No other technology company other than Apple has successfully transitioned their platform. It's almost never done, and it's way harder than you realize. This transition is where tech companies go to die.”

Source : "RIM chiefs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie's best quotes" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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