"For a while, it was something to try to push at people, playing old murder ballads and being upset about everything I was seeing around me. But now I feel a lot more at peace with it."

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Source : "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

Frank Fairfield

#People Quotes #Upset Quotes #Trying Quotes

“There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it's more or less the norm.”

Source : "Wes Anderson: 'I don't think any of us are normal people'". Interview with Francesca Babb, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.
“To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.”

Source : "But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1986.
“I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.”
“It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.”

Source : Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.208, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we'll be able to do that is to gain our freedom.”
“Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper set the clouds to one great roof of flame above the earth, so that I walk through fire, beneath fire, and all in beauty. Being alone I could not be alone, but felt (closer than flesh) the presence of those who once had burned in such transfigurations. My happiness ran through the centuries in one continual brightness. Looking down, I saw the earth beneath me like a rose petaled with mountains, fragrant with deep peace.”
“Usually time alters and affects everything, but when someone you love dies time cannot change that, no amount of time will ever change that, so time stops having any meaning.”

Source : Rosamund Lupton (2010). “Sister”, p.44, Hachette UK
“"Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later." "You will do it now, young man. I don't want you winding up on the third shift at Flagg-Utica." Flagg-Utica was a local textile plant. Somehow, I never could figure how failing to read three chapters in my geography book about the various sorts of vegetation to be found in a tropical rain forest had anything to do with facing a life as a mill hand. But with enough guilt and fear as catalysts, you can read anything, even geography books and Deuteronomy.”

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