"Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family."

-- Junot Diaz

#Memories Quotes #Giving Quotes #Migration Quotes

“I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.”
“Unfortunately, on my father's side we have a nonexistent relationship. But my mother and sister and I live very closely, we remain in the same city and we see each other every day.”
“No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.”
“I have a lot of faith in people.”
“The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.”

Source : William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.2
“The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the mechanisms of self justification and into his faults instead of freeing him from them. For him, our voice drowns the voice of God.”
“In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.”
“One thing that makes the adventure of working in our field particularly rewarding, especially in attempting to improve the theory, is that... a chief criterion for the selection of a correct hypothesis... seems to be the criterion of beauty, simplicity, or elegance.”

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