"Nostalgia for people, cultures, everything. There's an ability to use these marks to note things that are erased, deleted. Traces are a species of history, of evidence. It's a way for the way the narrator to construct a semblance of self, even though all of this creates a deception, a way to think of one's traces as a real way to define oneself. The trace is fallible, impermanent. It's one of the motives I had in mind throughout the text."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

#Real Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes

“The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.”

Source : Quoted in Julian Lloyd Webber The Song of the Birds (1985).
“Let me just say that, if you ever have the choice of putting your words in powerpoint or having them carved into 30-foot high marble, I'd say go for the marble.”
“The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.”
“The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.”
“The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.”
“Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?”
“The duty of an Opposition is to oppose.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.
“We have to consider who is going to be the best prime minister to take on a "one nation" agenda.”

Source : "Boris Johnson says he is out of Tory party leadership race after Gove challenge - as it happened" by Andrew Sparrow, Haroon Siddique, Nadia Khomami and Chris Johnston, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2106.

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