"Each new thing he encountered in life impelled him in a direction that fully convinced him of its rightness, but then the next new thing loomed up and impelled him in the opposite direction, which also felt right. There was no controlling narrative: he seemed to himself a purely reactive pinball in a game whose only object was to stay alive for staying alive's sake."

-- Jonathan Franzen

#Opposites Quotes #Games Quotes #Sake Quotes

“When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.”
“...and he crosses the line with the ball almost mesmerically tied to his foot with a piece of string.”
“The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.”
“With Instapaper, I can take a few months off. I can't stop publishing 'The Magazine' for two months and work on something else.”
“Taking care of your body, no matter what your age, is an investment.”
“In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.”
“If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.”

Source : Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. June 12, 2007.
“I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people sympathize.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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