"I am interested in the gaps between one piece of sidewalk and the next. I am interested in the things for which we dont always have a name, and the things that are not easy to articulate - the difference between what we think and how we feel."

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Amy Bloom

#Thinking Quotes #Names Quotes #Differences Quotes

“You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.”
“I stand up, sure of one thing and one thing only. That my father will come and get me. He won't give me a lecture, he won't try to teach me a lesson. He won't ask a thousand questions or ask me to apologize. He'll just come and get me. "Just tell me where you are.”

Source : Melina Marchetta (2003). “Saving Francesca”
“Persons who have a strong sense of efficacy deploy their attention and effort to the demands of the situation and are spurred by obstacles to greater effort.”
“The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.”

Source : Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper (1966). “Historical essays”
“They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche did not belong. And see - you are teaching it in a literature class - so they must have been right.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Hatred isgeneralized, but love is for the particular.”
“Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!”
“Martin Jol is literally a dead man walking”

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