"There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one."

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Source : Ben Fountain (2012). “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk”, p.77, Canongate Books

Ben Fountain

#Perfection Quotes #World Quotes #Moments Quotes

“That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized it before or not. Now, today, this moment, is out chance to chose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last forever. We must take it or leave it.”
“The mind which can totally and inanely forget its work and obligations is often also the mind which can, at the proper time, give them the fullest attention.”

Source : Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“In the end I would always pull up with a sense of glory, that loving is the strong side. It's feeble to be an object. What's the point of being loved in return, I'd ask myself.”
“I don't like listening to music that isn't real.”
“Too much knowledge could be a bad thing. I was lead to the SzemerÃ©di theorem by proving a result, about squares, that Euler had already proven, and I relied on an "obvious" fact, about arithmetical progressions, that was unproved at the time. But that lead me to try and prove that formerly unproved statement- about arithmetical progressions-and that ultimately lead to the SzemerÃ©di Theorem.”
“Pray for 'all men.' We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.”
“Clamorous pauperism feastest While honest Labor, pining, hideth his sharp ribs.”
“...she thought that something unexpressed in herself came forth and became a part of an unexpressed something in them.”

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