"Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?"

-- Julio Cortazar

#Eden Quotes #Paradise Quotes #Nostalgia Quotes

“At Liverpool, I had almost everything but titles. I felt like a king, but the team was falling apart.”
“I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too.”
“I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.”
“Men are just like unlit lamps: in themselves they are no good for anything, but, when lit, they can be handy to have around the house.”

Source : Moderata (Modesta Pozzo) Fonte (2007). “The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men”, p.58, University of Chicago Press
“As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.”
“Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others; but the routines followed are reflexively open to change in the light of the mobile nature of self-identity.”
“Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.”

Source : FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Oct 16, 2014
“For the last 30 years, I've been leading a life of crime and international intrigue that's involved 40 stamps in my passport, love affairs, and broken hearts to go with each one of them. You would have to live three lifetimes to catch up with just the allegations that follow me!”

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