"he'd once believed that the answer lay somehow in the music he created, he suspected now that He'd been mistaken. The more he thought about it, the more he'd come to realize that for him, music had always been a movement away from reality rather than a means of living in it more deeply. .. he now knew that burying himself in music had less to do with God than a selfish desire to escape."

-- Nicholas Sparks

#Selfish Quotes #Mean Quotes #Reality Quotes

“Donald Trump among wishy-washy people, who decide one day they want him, and they want his endorsement, they support him, and the next day they don't. It's much better for him to take the message directly to the people.”
“When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.”

Source : Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.
“I think here is the irony of American history. We don't have an established church. When you have an established church nobody takes religion as seriously as we do here. We have a free market in religion. The religious groups are competing with each other.”

Source : "Life Is Getting More Difficult for Americans". Interview with Karen Andresen and Cordula Meyer, www.spiegel.de. October 30, 2008.
“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.”

Source : "Jurnee Smollett-Bell Gets Deep About Underground, a Slave Narrative That Will Make You Proud to Be Black". Interview with Ronda Racha Penrice, www.theroot.com. March 9, 2016.
“It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.”

Source : Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee (2012). “Rama II”, p.314, RosettaBooks
“Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answerâ€”good, honest, noble work.”
“Have you noticed we can breathe in here too? Gosh, I wouldn't have picked up on that.”
“The real conflict, if any exists, is between two industrial systems.”

Source : Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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