"We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do."

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Source : Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.11, Vintage

Will Schwalbe

“And when the sun goes down and the mood comes upon me, I'll watch the play of the colors on the water, yield to the fleetly dissolving images, and turn into pure feeling, all soft and nice....”
“I'm technologically challenged, so I finally hooked up Bluetooth in my truck so I can talk going down the road.”

Source : "Team Chevy Daytona pre-season test teleconference: Kurt Busch". www.motorsport.com. January 13, 2012.
“While the heart beats, hope lingers.”
“Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.”
“By God, we will make the fire eat up half of Isreal if it tries to do anything against Iraq.”
“Now and then in life, love catches you unawares, illuminating the dark corners of your mind, and filling them with radiance. Once in awhile you are faced with a beauty and a joy that takes your soul, all unprepared, by assault.”
“There must be a place where hopes and dreams are nurtured, and that place is only within ourselves. A place to clean the grime of life, a place that waits for us to stay and look inside that we might see the truth.”
“Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are.”

Source : "Alain de Botton's Healing Arts" by Joshua Rothman, www.newyorker.com. November 19, 2013.

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