"She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She knew why I despised everything that might restrict my forward momentum. She knew that bullets have no conscience. They speed past things and miss their marks as often as they hit them."

-- James Ellroy

#Past Quotes #Self Quotes #Missing Quotes

“Thereâ€™s something amazing about this life. The very same worldly attribute that causes us pain is also what gives us relief: Nothing here lasts. What does that mean? It means that the breathtakingly beautiful rose in my vase will wither tomorrow. It means that my youth will neglect me. But it also means that the sadness I feel today will change tomorrow. My pain will die. My laughter wonâ€™t last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isnâ€™t perfect. And it isnâ€™t. It isnâ€™t perfectly good. But, it also isnâ€™t perfectly bad, either.”
“There is no reconciliation until you recognize the dignity of the other, until you see their view- you have to enter into the pain of the people. You've got to feel their need.”
“We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.”
“The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.”
“I told [my daughter Amy] at an early age that she had a good ear. But I didn't influence her music much. She's pretty much developed her style on her own, and she's a talented songwriter.”

Source : Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 2, 2010.
“Thank you Madonna and fans for an experience of a lifetime!”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 23, 2012
“... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.”

Source : Robert Bly (2015). “Iron John: A Book about Men”, p.30, Da Capo Press
“â€¦made me promise to cut down on the drinking and swearing, which I have. Unfortunately, this has left me dim-witted and nearly speechless.”

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