"The scars are a way of reminding me that the past is real. They are honorable."

-- Patrick Califia

#Real Quotes #Past Quotes #Way Quotes

“Baseball didn't really get into my blood until I knocked off that hitting streak. Getting a daily hit became more important to me than eating, drinking or sleeping.”
“You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.”
“Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.”

Source : "I want to make the world better" by Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.
“Dogs may have kept us company on the hunt, but it was the cats who insisted we invent houses and discover fire.”
“It happened in New York, April 10th, nineteen years ago. Even my hand balks at the date. I had to push to write it down, just to keep the pen moving on the paper. It used to be a perfectly ordinary day, but now it sticks up on the calendar like a rusty nail.”
“Today when the Fundamentalists are once more insisting that the fundamentals of fundamentalism are fundamental to our being No. 1 on the Lord's totem pole, it's very brave of you to invite the "resident atheist" of mid-Missouri to share her thoughts with you.”
“I don't have a love life. I have a like life.”
“Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.”

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