"Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor."

-- Jackson Browne

#Dream Quotes #Children Quotes #Struggle Quotes

“If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.”

Source : "Caitlin Flanagan and Joan Didion: Writers and Mothers". Interview with Nancy Doyle Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2012.
“You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend - those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.”
“Nowhere on earth has more soul than Detroit.”
“[I]n contrast to the common belief that they are the world's greatest cynics, the best journalists are the world's great idealists. They have experienced firsthand the great soothing balance of human existence. For every disgrace there is triumph, for every wrong there is a moment of justice, for every funeral a wedding, for every obituary a birth announcement.”
“Meat eating and a compassionate religion do not go hand in hand.”

Source : Bodo Balsys (2004). “Ahiṃsā: Buddhism and the Vegetarian Ideal”
“Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?”
“The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.”
“Gotta watch out for directors.”

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