"The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver's permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school and twirl one's car keys like a lifeguard whistle. That jingling sound meant freedom and power."

-- Sloane Crosley

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“Classical music is at odds with contemporary culture precisely because of its insistence on the tension between the bodily and intellectual, the material and the spiritual, the thinglike and its transcendence in thought. A culture that is merely sensuous and that denies the activity of the mind within sensuous materials risks becoming pornographic.”
“We do not go to work only to earn an income, but to find meaning in our lives. What we do is a large part of what we are”
“There is something extraordinary about the first time falling.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
“Whoever is new to power is always harsh.”
“How many fluids should you take in daily?Â That is an unanswerable question with all of the variables that affect our fluid needs at any given time.Â If you meet anyone who can answer that question for you, run away quickly.”
“What we are not changing, we are choosing.”

Source : David Richo (2014). “How to Be an Adult: A Handbook on Psychological and Spiritual Integration”, p.43, Paulist Press
“Self-esteem can be so exhausting. I want to cut my hair, change my clothes, erase the pimple from the near-tip of my nose, and strengthen my upper-arm definition, all in the next hour.”
“I think that I am profoundly influenced by writers who have explored loss, and longing, and fear. Those influences have turned me into a thriller writer, essentially.”

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