"Self-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies."

-- Annie Dillard

#Self Quotes #Cities Quotes #Consciousness Quotes

“Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.”
“In a sense, I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself.”
“I don't think that Hollywood will have much to do with changing politics. Hollywood usually reflects things.”
“I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing I can think of that probably doesn't.”

Source : John Gierach (2010). “At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman”, p.147, Simon and Schuster
“What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling.”

Source : William Maxwell, Christopher Carduff (2008). “Later novels and stories: The château, So long, see you tomorrow, stories and improvisations, 1957-1999”
“I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.”
“I just kind of had this naÃ¯ve approach to - well, gee, you know, why not. I'll just go ahead and do it.”

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