"The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding."

-- John Updike

#New York Quotes #Believe Quotes #People Quotes

“My senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, 'You can become an Olympic champion.' And that's the first time that I'd heard someone else say that to me. I was like, 'Uh, are you talking to me?'”
“Jealousy is a terrible thing. I know all the psychological triggers. The fear of losing control, the fear of loss, the fear of abandonment, neglect and loneliness...But the most destructive thing about jealousy is that it kills what it values-the love you want to save won't survive the constraints of jealousy. There is no entitlement. Love is either equal or a tragedy.”

Source : "Bleed for Me (Joseph O'Loughlin)". Book by Michael Robotham, 2010.
“When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.”

Source : "Don't drunk text your ex: artist offers a cringe-free alternative" by Leigh Alexander, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2016.
“Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.”

Source : Ariel Dorfman (2012). “Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile”, p.9, Melbourne Univ. Publishing
“I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.”
“Don't let the wicked city get you down.”
“Life is always at some turning point.”

Source : Irwin Edman (1968). “The Uses of Philosophy: An Irwin Edman Reader”
“Blaming none, disrespecting nothing is the doorway to Unity Consciousness.”

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