"We all survive more than we think we can,"

-- Joan Didion

#Thinking Quotes

“Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.”
“How the false truths of the years of youth have passed!Have passed at full speed like trains which never stoppedThere where I stood and waited, hardly aware,How little I knew, or which of them was the oneTo mount and ride to hope or where true hope arrives.”

Source : Delmore Schwartz (1959). “Summer knowledge; new and selected poems, 1938-1958”
“Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.”
“If we're all going to die, shouldn't we be enjoying ourselves now?”
“It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre.”
“Go into seclusion and rest your mind on the silence.”
“When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday.. no matter what happened Tuesday.”
“My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.”

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