"Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come."

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Pico Iyer

#Sometimes Quotes

“The self is no mystery, the mystery is / That there is something for us to stand on”

Source : George Oppen, Robert Creeley (2003). “George Oppen: Selected Poems”, p.80, New Directions Publishing
“I sound like a church nut, but look at the role of the churches in the civil rights movement in the States. People are brought together in other ways that can become drivers of change.”
“No matter what I do, I'm hurting someone." - Katniss Everdeen”
“You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.”
“The truth is that itâ€™s not about the weight. Itâ€™s never been about the weight. When a pill is discovered that allows people to eat whatever they want and not gain weight, the feelings and situations they turned to food to avoid will still be there and they will find other more inventive ways to numb themselves.”
“I honor businesses for what they do, I honor nonprofits for what they do, I honor government for what it does, and then I invite everyone to the table so that together we can come up with innovative and broad-based solutions that can serve as many people as possible. The fewer or less diverse voices you invite to the table, the smaller and narrower your solution will be and the fewer people it will serve.”
“Well, I think it's just remarkable how wrong the conventional wisdom was. It was utterly shocking that Donald Trump won to people who live on the coasts, but to people who live in the areas that I come from, it was utterly predictable. And that suggests something really, really broken about our political culture.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all.”

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