"She wonders if you can feel nostalgic for something before it's in the past, she wonders if perhaps her vocabulary is too small or if her chemical intake has corroded it and the music goes doowoah doowoah."

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Source : Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Jon McGregor

#Past Quotes #Vocabulary Quotes #Wonder Quotes

“It is really hard when the actor you pictured can't do the film.”

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“Every single courageous act of coming out chips away at the curse of homophobia. Most importantly it's destroyed within yourself, and that act creates the potential for its destruction where it exists in friends, family and society.”
“Should we not have respect enough to God to make a record of those blessings which He pours out upon us and our official acts which we do in His name upon the face of the earth? I think we should.”
“Every man has but one destiny" Veto Corleone”
“I must say a few words about memory. It is full of holes. If you were to lay it out upon a table, it would resemble a scrap of lace. I am a lover of history . . . [but] history has one flaw. It is a subjective art, no less so than poetry or music. . . . The historian writes a truth. The memoirist writes a truth. The novelist writes a truth. And so on. My mother, we both know, wrote a truth in The 19th Wifeâ€“ a truth that corresponded to her memory and desires. It is not the truth, certainly not. But a truth, yes . . . Her book is a fact. It remains so, even if it is snowflaked with holes.”
“I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.”
“I do squats until I fall over and pass out. So what? Itâ€™s not going to kill me. I wake up five minutes later and Iâ€™m OK”
“Wisdom is the power to perceive the best ends to aim at and the best means for reaching those ends.”

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