"I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature recognition of my own psychological vulnerability and my lack of suitability as a companion. Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as i struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life."

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Source : Irvine Welsh (1995). “The Acid House”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

Irvine Welsh

#Order Quotes #Space Quotes #People Quotes

“Our GDP growth rates are creating - our high GDP growth rates, the success of our economy means we're creating lots of disposable income.”

Source : "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.
“I'd say the vast majority of my interview experiences have been pleasant, better than pleasant. But sometimes there will be people who will size you up. There can be that "rock star" thing where they think it's cool to pull back.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I think the reality is that, that money was probably badly spent.”
“For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place.”
“I used to go with him and I'd sometimes play, take over from him. That was my first taste of the music business, I suppose, but I was also in the youth orchestra at Johnston Grammar.”
“Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent." -Kahlan”
“I didn't finish my dress until about three days before my wedding - I had the flu and was stitching it from my bed. And the tulle came back from India all brown. We had to wash it for hours, but that didn't dissuade me from wearing it.”
“What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.”

Source : "Courage To Care - Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust" by Carol Rittner and Sandra Meyers, NYU Press, (p. 2), 1986.

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