"There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I decided, 'It's okay to be an introvert, but I don't want to be a loner. I want a few other people in my life."

-- Mark Vonnegut

#Father Quotes #People Quotes #Loner Quotes

“Lying on the roof counting the stars that fill the sky I wonder if Someone in the heavens looking back down on me I'll never know So much space to believe”
“But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.”
“This is a tradition of resistance to the term that's as old as the term itself, especially because that term has been used to commodify and reduce black creativity, and also to appropriate and sell it. That's what John Coltrane said in an interview with a Japanese journalist: "Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist." And he's treated as one of the central figures in the history of jazz. So if he rejected it, then why is it weird when I do it? I'm in the tradition!”

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“But by the time I was 40, everything was winding down. It started after the war. On the plus side, there was more more products and technology. But for me the nightlife was winding down, the glamour, the fun.”
“Stephen Fry is a master exponent of the English tongue. Some people might think that he is the most irritating man in Britain, but my wife and I love him all the same.”
“I've always had a strange fear of spoons.”
“If you can't see His way past the tears, trust His heart.”
“Half of the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need. I live more simply now, and with more peace.”

Source : "Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure". Book by Richard E. Byrd, 1938.

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