"We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable."

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Source : Edna O'Brien (2002). “The Lonely Girl”, Plume

Edna O'Brien

#Knowing Quotes #Different Quotes #Persons Quotes

“I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.”
“I still do one song by myself onstage. it gives people the extremely personal thing where it's just me on guitar. But, I think the songs are better as a band. I think with all of the extra little hooks and backing vocals, it just adds to what my initial idea was.”
“I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you.”

Source : Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.22, Knopf
“I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.”
“If there is no God there is no hereafter. When, therefore, one drives God out of the universe he closes the door of hope upon himself.”
“Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced.”

Source : William Whewell (1847). “History of the Inductive Sciences: I. The Greek school philosophy, with reference to physical science. II. The physical sciences in ancient Greece. III. Greek astronomy. IV. Physical science in the middle ages. V. Formal astronomy after the stationary period”, p.96
“We need to demonise soda, the way we've demonised cigarettes.”
“You will come to agree with me.”

Source : Blue Balliett (2012). “Chasing Vermeer”, p.103, Scholastic Inc.

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