"Gradually the awful truth dawns on you: that Santa Claus was just the tip of the iceberg - that your future will not be the rollercoaster ride you'd imagined, that the world occupied by your parents, the world of washing the dishes, going to the dentist, weekend trips to the DIY superstore to buy floor tiles, is actually largely what people mean when they speak of 'life'."

-- Paul Murray

#Life Quotes #Mean Quotes #Weekend Quotes

“Some people are worried about the future of comics and some people are busy building it. That latter group are my heroes.”
“I do some weights and I do a lot of stretching.”
“It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love.”
“any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man”
“You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself”
“I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me”
“Each day when you wake up, say: "What miracles would you have me perform today?" Then listen.”
“I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.”

Source : Bence Jones, Michael Faraday (2010). “The Life and Letters of Faraday”, p.398, Cambridge University Press

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