"Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon."

-- Mary Karr

#Morning Quotes #Loss Quotes #Moon Quotes

“The national question is purely a peasant question...the best way to eliminate nationality is a massive factory with thousands of workers..., which like a millstone grinds up all nationalities and forges a new nationality. This nationality is the universal proletariat.”

Source : "The Affirmative Action Empire" by Terry Martin, (p. 147), 2001.
“Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to and fro.”
“I tried to think about these two issues very freely. With sex, I think I can manage with that. With death, this is a more difficult theme for me. I'm not a believer, even though I'm baptized. I don't practice. I don't believe in God, so I feel very alone facing death. What I discovered is that the only way to recognize death is if you are part of life, if you are part of sexual pleasure, if you link it with sexual pleasure.”
“Never mind about 1066 William the Conqueror, 1087 William the Second. Such things are not going to affect one?s life...but 1932 the Mars Bar and 1936 Maltesers and 1937 the Kit Kat - these dates are milestones in history and should be seared into the memory of every child in the country.”
“If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream-a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows-is essentially poetry.”

Source : Michel Leiris (1987). “Nights as day, days as night”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
“The primary success factor is knowing how to learn from others and rely on yourself.”
“I blow my own mind like Nirvana, and go the whole nine like Madonna.”
“Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers.”

Source : "Gary Hart, James Woolsey: Oil Tied to Security". Interview with Daniel Stone, www.newsweek.com. August 05, 2010.

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