"Sometimes a shock to the system is a good thing, you know? Like a reminder that you're alive."

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Source : Jessi Kirby (2014). “Golden”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

#Alive Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Good Things Quotes

“Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.”
“For business, our internet love affair was a gift from the gods.”
“I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based for a while. I just came downstairs each day, picked the one I was going to do that day, and wrote.”
“It's a bit questionable whether Turkey is a model country or not, since our government is supporting ISIS in Syria, since there are legislations that are not in line with democratic rules.”
“Intelligence starts to get pretty dull if it's not coupled with kindness.”

Source : Source: www.violetgrey.com
“There is a reason why America produced the most vigorous feminist movement in the world: We were one of the only countries in which the middle class (which is wealthy by world standards) customarily employed its own women as domestic servants.”
“Thinking is the biggest mistake a dancer could make. You have to feel.”
“I'd much prefer to write more quickly.”

Source : "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

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