"When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky....They will never be the same again because you cannot be the same once you leave behind who and what you are, you just cannot be the same....Look at them leaving in droves, despite knowing they will be welcomed with restraint in those strange lands because they do not belong"

-- NoViolet Bulawayo

#Children Quotes #Fall Quotes #Escaping Quotes

“Everyone's so interior now, they're not really looking around them. They're on their phones”

Source : "Kim Gordon on Giving Up Rock, Being a "Strong Woman," and Appearing on Girls". Interview with Seth Colter Walls, www.slate.com. September 03, 2013.
“Too much knowledge could be a bad thing. I was lead to the SzemerÃ©di theorem by proving a result, about squares, that Euler had already proven, and I relied on an "obvious" fact, about arithmetical progressions, that was unproved at the time. But that lead me to try and prove that formerly unproved statement- about arithmetical progressions-and that ultimately lead to the SzemerÃ©di Theorem.”
“You can disguise any set with lights and shadows.”
“I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot.”
“Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.”
“After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.”
“Creativity is narcissism. Creativity is falling in love with one's self as you create. It's self-indulgent.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“When I met Nathan, I told my tour manager he was too good-looking for me. I don't have a history of dating good-looking men. I've always complained that girls don't get male groupies, and now I've married the first groupie I've ever had.”

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