"Not to excuse myself, but when you have people right in front of you denying your very presence like that, then see if you don't doubt whether you actually exist. I look at my hands half expecting to see clear through them."

-- Haruki Murakami

#Hands Quotes #People Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same -- scandal.”
“Any argument that asserts that 'God did it' is a sign of a lazy mind.”
“I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's a clever song about American history but wrapped in a fantastic tune.”
“The greatest gift I ever had Came from God; I call him Dad!”
“I respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty of objective bodies, he must possess the capacity of self-perfection and must observe and represent his world with full confidence.”
“Right" he said "Let's get one thing clear. I am not here to teach you law-I am here to teach you loopholes.”

Source : Catherine Jinks (2008). “Evil Genius”, p.130, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“One book that has meant much to my writing is W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants. He uses a photograph of Vladimir Nabokov hunting butterflies in a similar way. The image or a reference to the image is traced throughout the four separate narratives. It sometimes seems to be the only link between the pieces, while the symbol Nabokov cuts remains wide open, a pencil sketch, a mystery to interpret outside his role as emigrant/observer.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“In so many accidents, you're not quite sure. Lots of times you think that's what happened, but you just don't know.”

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