"The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning."

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Source : Peter Høeg (2013). “Tales of the Night”, p.309, Macmillan

Peter HÃ¸eg

#Reality Quotes #Bridges Quotes #Balance Quotes

“But sometimes I think you have to try to do things that people don't think are doable.”

Source : "Director Michel Hazanavicius THE ARTIST Interview". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. November 26, 2011.
“We were totally opposite - me coming from the West Coast and a junior college, and him [ Christopher Reeve] from the hard-core Ivy League. He used to be the studly studly of all studlies, and I was the little fool ferret boy.”
“Tally sighed, tipping her feet again to follow. "Maybe that's because they have better stuff to do than kid tricks. Maybe partying in town is better than hanging out in a bunch of old ruins." Shay's eyes flashed. "Or maybe when they do the operation-when they grind and stretch your bones to the right shape, peel off your face and rub all your skin away, and stick in plastic cheekbones so you look like everyone else-maybe after going through all that you just aren't very interesting anymore.”
“Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.”
“First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject.”
“O take heart, my brothers. Even now... with every leader & every resource & every strategy of every nation on Earth arrayed against Her - Even now, O even now, my brothers, Life is in no danger of losing the argument! - For after all .... (as will be shown) She has only to change the subject.”
“Everybody talks and everybody listens, and somehow the truth just always comes up missin.”
“The foetus is the property of the entire society.Anyone having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity.”

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