"I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know."

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Anne Lamott

#Long Quotes #People Quotes #Lines Quotes

“A day came when I should have died, and after that nothing seemed very important. So I have stayed as I am, without regret, separated from the normal human condition.”

Source : Guy Sajer (2000). “The Forgotten Soldier”, p.9, Potomac Books, Inc.
“I think it's important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating. I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed radically since I was a student. People change their notion of what is responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food”
“The preservation of the Jew was certainly not casual. He has endured through the power of a certain ideal, based on the recognition of a Higher Power in human affairs. Time after time in his history, moreover, he has been saved from disaster in a manner, which cannot be described excepting as 'providential.' The author has deliberately attempted to write this book in a secular spirit; he does not think that his readers can fail to see in it, on every page, a higher immanence”

Source : Cecil Roth (1935). “A Bird's-eye View of Jewish History”, Cincinatti : Department of Synagogue and School Extension of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations
“Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.”
“Keep searchin’ for your mystery note on the universal piano of life.”
“I'm a hard-working girl. I go to the office. I work a normal 9 to 5 job most days.”
“If it was Europe, I just picked a country that I hadn't been to, but I didn't try to check up on what was going on in the country or anything like that. I just went and had a good time and met a lot of very nice people who are still my friends.”

Source : "Burning brightly". Interview with Richard Hawley, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2006.
“To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.”

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