"I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us."

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Source : Rachel Kushner (2014). “The Flamethrowers: A Novel”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

Rachel Kushner

#Destiny Quotes #Want Quotes #Infatuated Quotes

“The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done.”
“Less fear; more hope: just four little four-letter words, but when they are vividly felt as emotion, they are behavior changing, life changing, world-changing.”
“I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.”
“Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.”
“I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me”
“It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.”
“There's no beauty that you could perceive or create if it were not already within you...”

Source : Peter Shepherd (2010). “Daring to Be Yourself”, p.228, DoctorZed Publishing
“The great lesson of history for us is that strength and resolve bring peace and order, and weakness and vacillation invite chaos and conflict.”

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