"I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss."

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Source : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.324, Penguin

Amor Towles

#Mean Quotes #Loss Quotes #Choices Quotes

“I believe in me, in my view of the world. I believe in my responsibility for my own destiny, guilt for my own sins, merit for my own good deeds, determination of my own life. I don't believe in miracles, I believe in hard work.”
“If and when the whole world is secure, we have won a right to explore space, and the oceans. Until we have demonstrated that we can establish a productive and secure earth society, we do not belong anywhere else, nor (I suspect) would we be welcome elsewhere.”

Source : "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.
“I like being on the road, living in hotels. While I've got a real nice house, I go crazy when I'm there.”
“Feminism is a way of understanding reality, not just a series of things to do. Feminism challenges our predilection for one right answer, one right God, one size fits all.”
“My brain said no. But my heart!”
“I truly believe that Yahoo! is one of the most compelling and dominant companies in the world.”
“I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex.”
“At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.”

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