"Man is a restless creature, nomadic at heart."

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Tash Aw

#Heart Quotes #Men Quotes #Restless Quotes

“I've been sober now for 18 years. With all the drugs, psychedelics and narcotics I did, I was [really] an alcoholic. Honestly, I only used to do cocaine so I could sober up and drink more. My last five years of drinking was a nightmare. I was drinking a half-gallon of rum with a fifth of rum on the side, in case I ran out, 28 beers a day, and three grams of cocaine just to keep me moving around. And I thought I was doing fine because I wasn't crawling around drunk on the floor.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Local esteem is far more conducive to happiness than general reputation. The latter may be compared to the fixed stars which glimmer so remotely as to afford little light and no warmth. The former is like the sun, each day shedding his prolific and cheering beams.”

Source : William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.415
“There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.”

Source : Margot Asquith (1934). “More Or Less about Myself”
“No one can help an alcoholic or addict until he or she is ready to try to get better.”
“We are disturbed about the effect of the Jewish influence on our press, radio, and motion pictures. It may become very serious. (Fulton) Lewis told us of one instance where the Jewish advertising firms threatened to remove all their advertising from the Mutual System if a certain feature was permitted to go on the air. The threat was powerful enough to have the feature removed.”
“I feel, you know, empowered because I gave life. I have a son now. I feel like I'm stronger.”
“Your security is determined by your ability to define what it is you do that has value. The clearer you can be on what it is you do well and what provides value for someone else, the more security you have.”
“Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.”

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