"The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are."

-- Joe Meno

#Past Quotes #Cities Quotes #Glitter Quotes

“It is difficult for the American mind to adjust to the realization that the Rhetts and the Scarletts were as much monsters as the keepers of Buchenwald-they just dressed more attractively.”
“We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.”
“Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.”

Source : "Patricia Marx Tells A Tale Of Sweet, Unbalanced Love". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. September 13, 2011.
“I go to the dentist, not a shrink.”
“There is no getting around these essential ingredients: determination, effort and time. These are the real secrets to happiness.”
“The inclusion of consequences in the conception of what we have done is an acknowledgement that we are parts of the world, but the paradoxical character of moral luck which emerges from this acknowledgement shows that we are unable to operate with such a view, for it leaves us with no one to be.”
“Since you are the one who has to live with your choices, be sure they are your own.”
“I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.”

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