"You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look down at the sidewalk and earthworms are spelling your name. Or you open a peanut bag and the 'hello' is written in your writing on the inside of the shell. Would that weird ya?"

-- Lynda Barry

#Writing Quotes #Names Quotes #Missing Quotes

“I've worked myself to exhaustion before. I was so young, and I thought I could do everything; it was just too much for my body and my mind.”
“The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.”
“Many messages are just thanking a stranger for a kindness...I love those ones, because I imagine everyone else reading them feels encouraged by such examples of humanity and generosity and tenderness. And if they encourage us to reach out to strangers more often, that's a good thing.”
“Men, Grace learned, seemed to think women were all frustrated nurses.”

Source : Alexandra Potter (2005). “Do You Come Here Often?”, p.182, Simon and Schuster
“Art provides us with clues about how to live our own lives more fully... art becomes our entree to the sublime.”
“The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.”
“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.”
“Mathematics is not something that you find lying around in your back yard. It's produced by the human mind. Yet if we ask where mathematics works best, it is in areas like particle physics and astrophysics, areas of fundamental science that are very, very far removed from everyday affairs.”

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