"The ideal is to feel at home anywhere, everywhere."

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Source : Geoff Dyer (2014). “Paris Trance: A Romance”, p.95, Macmillan

Geoff Dyer

#Home Quotes #Feels Quotes

“Don't, for goodness' sake, keep on saying 'Don't'; I hear so much of it, and it's monotonous, and makes me tired.”
“It's strange with graffiti. You put a lot out, but you don't get that much back because not many people know who's doing it. You have your peers of about 10 guys who know you are the one painting.”

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“I've learned to write the truth. But to do that, I had to figure out what the truth was-and I had to realize that the truth isn't always the same for everyone. I had to realize that my truth may not be the same as your truth.”

Source : Pat Murphy (2008). “The Wild Girls”, p.192, Penguin
“Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society.”
“At first, we lived in very, very small places... with my mom cleaning houses and scrounging up just enough to keep us in town with a working car. She introduced me to my first agent, and I started with stand-in work, then eventually commercials and television guest-shots.”
“Imagination is not enough. Knowledge is necessary.”

Source : Paul Scott (1986). “My appointment with the muse: essays, 1961-75”, Heinemann Educational Books
“My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.”
“I believe [filibustering judicial nominees] is in violation of the Constitution”

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