"Living means constantly growing closer to death. Satisfaction only temporarily relieves hunger. Find the balance, and plant your feet."

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Source : Jackie Morse Kessler (2010). “Hunger”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Jackie Morse Kessler

#Mean Quotes #Feet Quotes #Balance Quotes

“The inhabitants of Coventry, for example, continued to imagine that their sufferings were due to the innate villainy of Adolf Hitler without a suspicion that a decision, splendid or otherwise, of the British War Cabinet, was the decisive factor in the case.”
“Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.”

Source : Bernard Crick (1962). “In Defence of Politics”
“Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.”
“Europe started out with six countries; three small countries and three large countries.”
“A wonder tale can be truer than true," I said. I had learned (...) that the deepest kind of truth can be found in the strangest and wildest of stories. One may not meet a fire-breathing dragon on the way to the well. One may not encounter an army of toothed snakes in the woodshed. That does not make the wisdom in those tales any less real.”
“True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.”
“I can live with the pain of losing but I can't live with the thought of not having tried my best.”
“All real difficulty stems from no responsibility. Full responsibility is not fault; it is recognition of being cause.”

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