"If I had to summarize, most broadly, my concerns as a writer, I'd say the question 'How then must we live?' is at the heart of it, for me."

-- Claire Messud

#Heart Quotes #Concern Quotes

“The sense that my world is stable and stationary, that change will never come and that all will go on continuously as it is, is the nature of all delusion.”
“A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.”
“to be black is to be very-hot.”

Source : Haki R. Madhubuti (1996). “Ground Work”, Third World Pr
“As a competitor and an athlete, you love that you get to go back and challenge someone, especially the world champs.”
“In a contest between new technology and old ways of life, it is the traditional rhythms that will hold. Traditional societies make up more than two-thirds of the world, the two-thirds that will not be going online to "save" time but will remain wedded to the knowledge that if the bus doesn't come that day, it will come someday. After all, there is nothing but time.”

Source : Thomas Bernhard (1991). “Yes”, p.35, University of Chicago Press
“I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.”

Source : George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet
“To think the needle is going to protect you is as silly as thinking that drugs will make you healthy.”
“You can observe a lot by just watching.”

Source : Quoted in Dick Schaap and Mort Gerberg's Joy in Mudville: The Big Book of Baseball Humor Reflections (p. 185)

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