"There are nights when I think that Sal Paradise was right / Boys and Girls in America / Have such a sad time together."

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Source : "Song: "Stuck Between the Stations" ("Boys and Girls in America")". 2006.

Craig Finn

#Girl Quotes #Night Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.”
“In short, if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation, we will clearly have to do it ourselves.”

Source : Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer (2012). “Sorcery & Cecelia: Or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot”, p.112, Open Road Media
“You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.”
“Before the deed comes the thought. Before the achievement comes the dream. Every mountain we climb, we first climb in our mind.”
“I became an electrician after high school. But I always had this thing in me to write. But it was always a little shameful. To say you were a poet was saying you were kind of crazy, and I carried that around for a long time. I still kind of carry that. And I think it might be true, actually.”

Source : "'Being Flynn': When Dad Needs To Take Shelter". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. February 29, 2012.
“To allow your organization the permission to fail is a very powerful thing. If we want to really be thought leaders and industry leaders, it doesn't come without taking risks. We're not afraid to take those risks that will get us to a better place.”
“He existed a step or two to one side of the common world, largely out of sight, a shadow, all but invisible. Whatever he owned, either he could hoist it on his back and lug it along or he could walk away from it. Anonymity was the thing he loved most about the city, being a part of it and apart from it at the same time.”

Source : James Sallis (2012). “Drive: The book that inspired the major film starring Ryan Gosling”, p.20, Oldcastle Books
“Ads are planned and written with some utterly wrong conception. They are written to please their seller. The interest of the buyer is forgotten”

Source : "Scientific Advertising".

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