"When Kevin Brockmeier says, "Everything, given the possibility, would choose to be a song," I recognize the implicit truth of such a miracle. What can I say, I'm Irish, and we take naturally to that sort of thing."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Jack Driscoll

#Song Quotes #Miracle Quotes #Possibility Quotes

“...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the "tough guy;" today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.”
“I don't much like to think that being a bachelor girl limits how you see the world. On the other hand, I know it certainly limits how the world sees you.”

Source : Wendy Wasserstein (1991). “Bachelor Girls”, Vintage
“It's no fun watching you disintegrate. Where is the old "I Love Myself" mantra? You need to feel you are indeed lovable and that your life matters. Listen. The birds are singing your name.”
“He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.”
“When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.”
“I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.”
“No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.”
“Nearly everything that was fun, of course, was also a little dangerous: riding roller coasters, skydiving, gambling, sex.”

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