"Yeah, we should all line up along the Bosphorus Bridge and puff as hard as we can to shove this city in the direction of the West. If that doesn't work, we'll try the other way, see if we can veer to the East. It's no good to be in between. International politics does not appreciate ambiguity."

-- Elif Safak

#Bridges Quotes #Cities Quotes #Appreciate Quotes

“They weren't great pictures, but they were fun, and they really represented that period of time well.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Suffering is the demand that experience be different from what it is.”
“I'm not crazy, but it's a crazy life. I was raised in a crazy family and it took 31 years to get the crazy out of me.”
“But death's acquisitive instincts will win.”
“There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.”
“What attracts me in photography is not so much a fine arts approach, but rather photographs as documents... All the ways in which human beings have documented the world in an attempt to order it, in an attempt to consume it or rule it or hang on to it in some sense.”
“Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence to a stupid person.”
“Precision in dress is the neurotic refuge of the perpetually insecure.”

Source : G. Bruce Boyer (2015). “True Style: The History and Principles of Classic Menswear”, p.139, Hachette UK

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