"The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do."

-- Neil Gaiman

#Time Quotes #Way Quotes #Discouraging Quotes

“I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. But when I started writing songs, I wrote very serious songs. Or things that a 13-14 year-old would think are very serious issues.”
“I was living a complete lie. But unfortunately, guilt doesn't make you stop.”
“Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.”

Source : Randolph Silliman Bourne (1992). “The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918”, p.133, Univ of California Press
“But they're already singing our praises!" "They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything.”
“I don't give a damn about Hollywood.”
“There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.”
“Look, [Mitt] Romney comes from a religion founded by a criminal who was anti-American, pro-slavery, and a rapist. And he comes from that lineage and says, 'I respect this religion fully.'”
“We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.”

Source : Wendy Lesser (2014). “Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books”, p.40, Macmillan

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