"The secret to living long is to have something to live for."

-- David Levithan

#Life Quotes #Long Quotes #Secret Quotes

“Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.”
“There's not a big gun culture in England at all still.”
“There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.”
“Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.”
“Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded as obsolete.”

Source : Max Horkheimer (2013). “Eclipse of Reason”, p.11, A&C Black
“There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I was just simply lost. I didn't know who I was; I didn't know really what I was doing here. I was meant to be a singer, but I just felt lost. That's when I went on the search for my birth family.”
“Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.”
“I am the complete and utter definition of a Luddite.”

Source : "The sound of silence". Interview with Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2008.

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