"There is something miraculous in the way the years wash away your evidence, first you, then your friends and family, then the descendants who remember your face, until you arenâ€™t even a memory, youâ€™re only carbon, no greater than your atoms, and time will divide them as well."

-- Anthony Marra

#Memories Quotes #Years Quotes #Family And Friends Quotes

“In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.”
“France, like other countries, is facing a terror threat that is unprecedented in its nature and magnitude, ... Terrorists are targeting France to divide us.”
“The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.”
“There is no possible line of conduct which has at some time and place been condemned, and which has not at some other time and place been enjoined as a duty.”
“A young songwriter shouldn't think he or she doesn't stand a chance because someone has big corporate people behind him. Never look at it like that.”
“And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books.”
“It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.”
“Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.”

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