"People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future."

-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Past Quotes #People Quotes #World Quotes

“Commentors to the Blog suggested Nick should take the Independent for every penny...”
“Nothing puts peace in its proper perspective better than the loss of personal liberty first.”
“You never count your chickens before they hatch. I used to keep parakeets and I never counted every egg thinking I would get all eight birds. You just hoped they came out of the nest box looking all right. I'm like a swan at the moment. I look fine on top of the water but under the water my little legs are going mad.”
“We will have no jobs if we have no planet.”

Source : "Humanity at a Crossroads: Fighting for Climate Justice" by Jayaseelan Naidoo, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 2, 2013.
“We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune.”
“I am not a great planner, so I have just a vague idea. And then I start to find out what kind of book I actually want to write.”

Source : "Herman Koch Gets Meta In 'Dear Mr. M'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. August 28, 2016.
“the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.”

Source : Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”
“There is snobbery in the idea that the modern cult of celebrity has not touched the lofty realm of letters. We are like visitors to a garden or flower show who wander the pathways and do not notice the beautiful flora but instead exchange murmurs about the appearance of the soil.”

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