"Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't."

-- Jonathan Coe

#Littles Quotes #Britain Quotes #Contemporary Quotes

“I want to be like Rocky Balboa. Give me a title shot right away! I'll prove myself.”
“And if someone felt that his life had been an utter failure, and that he himself was only one among millions of wholly unimportant people who could be replaced as easily as broken windowpanes, he would go and pour out his heart to Momo. And, even as he spoke, he would come to realize by some mysterious means that he was absolutely wrong: that there was only one person like himself in the whole world, and that, consequently, he mattered to the world in his own particular way. Such was Momo's talent for listening.”
“Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others.”
“There cannot possibly be a god in heaven watching all of this calmly.”
“True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.”
“We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream.”
“I feel like love is the thing we were created for, yet it's the place we struggle the most.”
“Are we all not, when we sit in the cinema, in the position of humans in The Matrix, tied to chairs, immersed in the spectacle run by a machine? However, a more appropriate allegory is that of the viewer himself: beneath the illusion that we "just look" at the perceived objects from a safe distance, freely sliding along them, there is the reality of the innumerable ties that bind us to what we perceive.”

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