"The rest-the vast majority, tens of thousands of days-are unremarkable, repetitive, even monotonous. We glide through them then instantly forget them. We tend not to think about this arithmetic when we look back on our lives. We remember the handful of Big Days and throw away the rest. We organize our long, shapeless lives into tidy little stories...But our lives are mostly made up of junk, of ordinary, forgettable days, and 'The End' is never the end."

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Source : William Landay (2012). “Defending Jacob: A Novel”, p.381, Delacorte Press

William Landay

#Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“Fathers need to be tough and tender...you be tough for your family, be tender with your family. You protect them, and you be a safe place.”
“My big mantra is 'food is medicine,' so I really love being able to talk about how you can make food your medicine, how you can make food be the thing that hopefully allows you to live a longer, happier, healthier life.”
“L]iberalism holds that the resources (divine and human) that are available for the achievement of meaningful change justify an attitude of ultimate optimism”

Source : James Luther Adams (1976). “On being human religiously: selected essays in religion and society”, Beacon Press (MA)
“History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.”
“Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.”
“The sound of progress is perhaps the sound of plummeting hypotheses.”
“Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.”

Source : Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.82, Penguin
“We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.”

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