"whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like."

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David Sedaris

#Moving Quotes #Excellence Quotes #Diaries Quotes

“As a child, I remember asking my parents when I was five years old, "How come if you are not Zionists, you came to the country?" I was surprised at myself that I asked this question. It means that it was always in the air. Then years later I understood it was because of the Holocaust, because they were refugees. They did not come as immigrants and, because of the illusions of the '50s and the late '40s, my mother said, "The world must be better." She could not imagine that it wouldn't be different.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“There is an intimate connection between the life of the Christian here and the enjoyment and the glory in the day of Christ's appearing.”
“Honest people, knowledgeable people, really well-informed people can have very different views about what the right measures are on national security.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life.”
“It doesn't matter what did or did not happen then. It only matters what happens NOW.”
“A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people.”
“The mind needs stories as much as the body needs food. There are junk stories and more nourishing ones. The food we eat becomes our bodies, assimilated stories form our identities”

Source : David Loy (2010). “The World Is Made of Stories”, p.26, Simon and Schuster
“I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.”

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