"The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence."

-- Elizabeth Wurtzel

#Taken Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Voice Quotes

“It was a real revolution. But with one missing feature. That is the feeling in a people that "We have done it once, and if the new lot let us down, we can do it again!" It was that proud, menacing confidence which made the French revolution special. But it's not around in 21st-century Europe. After 1989, the people handed over liberty to the experts. Will they ever want it back?”
“Right away I thought I'd been hit by a hand grenade ... her (Joni Mitchells') voice, those words ... she nailed me to the back wall with two-inch spikes... I promptly fell in love with her...”
“Calculators can only calculate - they cannot do mathematics.”
“One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it.”
“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”

Source : "Fictional character: Sonmi-451". "Cloud Atlas", www.imdb.com. 2012.
“What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence.”
“When I start appreciating, I look at it like business. I start by appreciating life itself. After all, life is really a gift. It might not always seem like that's true, but it is. If nothing else, it's a gift of discovery. So I appreciate that!”
“I flew into a small airport surrounded by cornfields and pastures, ready to carry out the two commands my father had written out for me the night before I left Calcutta: Spend two years studying creative writing at the Iowa Writers Workshop, then come back home and marry the bridegroom he selected for me from our caste and class.”

Source : "American Dreamer". www.motherjones.com. January/February 1997.

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