"Every human being has a bit of gangster in him."

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Binyavanga Wainaina

#Gangsters Quotes #Humans Quotes

“It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.”
“Everyone asks me 'how it feels to fly.' It feels like riding in a high powered automobile, minus bumping over the rough roads, continually signaling to clear the way and keeping a watchful on the speedometer to see that you do not exceed the speed limit and provoke the wrath of the bicycle policeman or the covetous constable.”
“No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism.”

Source : Emily St. John Mandel (2014). “Station Eleven: A novel”, p.110, Vintage
“Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.”
“I would like to be remembered as a - somebody who could rock your soul or make your cry with a song. And somebody who's kind, who loved to laugh, and loved his God.”
“I like the lad who, when his father thought To clip his morning nap by hackneyed phrase Of vagrant worm by early songster caught, Cried, "Served him right! it's not at all surprising; The worm was punished, sir, for early rising!”

Source : John Godfrey Saxe (1872). “The Poems: Complete in One Volume”, p.134
“The place resembled a new model prison, or one that had achieved a provisional utopia after principled revolt, or maybe a homeless shelter for people with liberal arts degrees. The cages brought to mind those labs with their death-fuming vents near my college studio. These kids were part of some great experiment. It was maybe the same one in which I'd once been a subject. Unlike me, though, or the guinea pigs and hares, they were happy, or seemed happy, or were blogging about how they seemed happy.”

Source : Sam Lipsyte (2010). “The Ask: A Novel”, p.187, Macmillan
“You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real heart to those stories anymore.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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