"It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I'd miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I'm sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things."

-- Banana Yoshimoto

#Long Quotes #Missing Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“Only peace between equals can last.”
“The only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or indirectly, cuts off the possibility of an essentially interminable questioning, that is, an effective and thus transforming questioning.”
“For too long, weâ€™ve called unbelievers to â€œinvite Jesus into your life.â€ Jesus doesnâ€™t want to be in your life. Your life is a wreck. Jesus calls you into his life. And his life isnâ€™t boring or purposeless or static. Itâ€™s wild and exhilarating and unpredictable.”
“Redemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed,”
“Playing two months or more in one city meant new songs all the time. If people paid their dimes to see and hear Sophie Tucker, they didn't want to hear the same songs over and over or see the same clothes.”

Source : SOPHIE TUCKER (1945). “Some of These Days: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SOPHIE TUCKER”
“The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former”
“I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound.”

Source : FaceBook post by James Crumley from Mar 18, 2016
“We can laugh from either joy or happiness, but we weep only from grief or joy...Without the pain of farewell, there is no joy in reunion...without the pain of captivity, we don't experience the joy of freedom.”

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