"Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen."

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Source : George Saunders (2012). “The Brain-Dead Megaphone”, p.55, A&C Black

George Saunders

#Life Quotes #Hurt Quotes #Confused Quotes

“If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.”
“I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk.”
“A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.”
“Who isn't a fan of Ray Charles?”
“I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street.”
“There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.”
“Night falling on the city Quite something to behold Don't it just look so pretty This disappearing world”

Source : Song: Disappearing World, Album: Life In Slow Motion, 2005
“I worked in an insurance office for six years, and it was there that I just woke up one day and realised there was something massively lacking in my life, and a non-contributory pension and a subsidised canteen could not fill it.”

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