"Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?" but when you're an adult and to be different is suddenly a crime, people seem to be saying, "Hey. Everyone else is jumping off a bridge. Why aren't you?"

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Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.529, Spiegel & Grau

Steve Toltz

#Children Quotes #Jumping Quotes #Bridges Quotes

“...Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.”
“When you died I didn't weep nor dream but knew you like a god breathe in each healing we begin.”

Source : Olga Broumas (1999). “Rave: poems, 1975-1999”, Copper Canyon Pr
“I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic.”
“One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on.”
“So many of our lessons are learned, it would seem, too late to use on Earth.”
“We are raising a generation that has a woefully small stock of ideas and interests and emotions. It must be amused at all costs but it has little skill in amusing itself. It pays some of its members to do what the majority can no longer do for themselves. It is this inner poverty that makes for the worst kind of boredom.”
“Live for something rather than die for nothing. â€”George Patton”

Source : Cindy Gerard (2008). “Whisper No Lies”, p.9, Simon and Schuster
“The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.”

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