"I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself."

-- Sam Shepard

#Country Quotes #Home Quotes #Nostalgia Quotes

“If your body is damaged, wounded, it can be fixed, but if inside, mentally, you are wounded you cannot fix it, it's hard.”
“I don't think it's healthy to take yourself too seriously.”
“No one yet has managed to be post-Shakespearean.”
“Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better. This is as barbaric and untruthful a doctrine as has yet emerged from the fertile mind of man.”

Source : Theodore Dalrymple (2003). “Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass”, p.194, Ivan R. Dee
“Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is an approach to life that involves planning almost without thinking about it. And men sustain this. I came from a northern grammar school. I had a good education, but I didn't have a good network.”

Source : "Breaking through the brass ceiling" by Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.
“Being a politician makes your hair turn white.”
“Beauty comes naturally, but it's hard to be stunning by accident.”
“I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.”

Source : Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1982). “Collected poems”, Carcanet New Press ; New York : Viking Press

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