"What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real."

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Source : Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

Miranda July

#Life Quotes #Letting Go Quotes #Real Quotes

“The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.”
“Right now, we're not a team. I think we're genuinely happy for each other when we're out there on the court. We've got to find new and different ways to support each other on the floor. The comfort zone that we've been in, we've got to change it a little bit. Everybody has onus on this team. It's easy for someone to say, 'I play only 10 minutes a game, so they're not talking about me.' But that 10 minutes is just as important.”
“Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos.”
“No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses.”
“True friendship is when you walk into their house and your WiFi connects automatically.”
“I used to have nightmares when I was a little kid that I woke up prematurely and opened all the Christmas presents. And then I would be so relieved when I woke up and I realized that I hadn't done it.”
“Increasingly, politics is not about "who gets what, when, how" but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is about "the right to life." It is about the environment. It is about gaining equality for groups alleged to be oppressed. None of these issues is economic. All are fundamentally moral.”
“Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process you can make adjustments as you go.”

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