"Then how come everyone's making like everything that isn't important is very important, all the while they're so busy pretending what's really important isn't important at all?"

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Source : Janne Teller, Martin Aitken (2012). “Nothing”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

Janne Teller

#Important Quotes #Busy Quotes #Pretending Quotes

“Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place. For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal”
“A great man is the man who does something for the first time.”
“Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter.”

Source : Helen Van Slyke (1988). “Helen Van Slyke, three complete novels”, Random House Value Pub
“Off camera, I am not so quiet, I have a fun time, relaxed.”
“God told me to look after my people-all are my people.”
“Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.”
“I regard food as fuel. I am not a brunch person.”
“Western governments should bear their responsibilities toward the welfare of their people and not try to make oil producers pay the costs”

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