"To be alive at all is to have scars."

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Source : John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.101, Penguin

John Steinbeck

#Alive Quotes #Scar Quotes

“Sooner or later we must absorb Islam if our own culture is not to die of anemia.”

Source : Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, Faber & Faber
“What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.”
“Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside. Then, depending on how the rest of the family is feeling that person is kept inside or snatched out, to prove something about the family's mental health.”

Source : Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.95, Vintage
“A man's opinion of danger varies at different times, in consequence of an irregular tide of animal spirits; and he is actuated by considerations which he dares not avow.”

Source : Tobias Smollett (1822). “The History of England: From the Revolution in 1688, to the Death of George II. Designed as a Continuation of Hume”, p.184
“There's no such thing as good voices. Because there's no such thing as bad voices. There are only good actors and bad actors.”
“I used to search and search for that actor or actress who's exactly what's in my head. But you have to realize you have to cast whoever's super talented and super funny, and then the character has to become at least partially theirs.”
“The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister, in-laws, and darling nephews.”
“I'm not in contact really with people from Chicago Area Skinheads movement and couldn't say who they now support politically, but I can tell you through my research online in which I've been doing interventions with people who are part of hate groups, that I've discovered essentially thousands and thousands of pro-Trump neo-Nazi accounts.”

Source : Source: chicagoist.com

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