"Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we donâ€™t know why, and if we do find out why, itâ€™s decades later and knowing why doesnâ€™t matter any more."

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Source : Douglas Coupland (2008). “All Families are Psychotic”, p.51, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Douglas Coupland

#Knowing Quotes #People Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.”

Source : Jean-Philippe Rameau (1971). “Traite de l'harmonie reduites a ses principes naturels”, p.35, Courier Corporation
“I feel qualified and competent to try anything that's thrown my way because I don't have to be a success. I can just try.”
“I've burned my own house down, the torch is in my hand.Now I'll burn down the house of anyone who wants to follow me.”
“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”

Source : "Outside Over There". Interview With Emma Brockes, harpers.org. March 2013.
“I have much respect for the people that I work with, and it's reciprocal. My shoots are always very calm. Everyone has their work to do, and we try to respect everyone's work and give them the time necessary. There's never any tension. That's something that helps to attain the simplicity that I'm looking for.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“God's love does not depend on the current spiritual condition of those He loves.”
“Dorothy said nothing. Oz had not kept the promise he made her, but he had done his best. So she forgave him. As he said, he was a good man, even if he was a bad Wizard.”
“Our procedures of deliberation are not ways of finding out independent moral truths but instead ways of "constructing" these truths, in the process of deciding what to do.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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