"Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection."

-- Richard Russo

#Past Quotes #Focus Quotes #Odd Quotes

“So many girls have become famous for literally nothing, other than falling out of clubs in shocking clothing or going out with a different person every week.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“..this indiscriminate love feels entirely serious to her, as if everything in the world is part of a vast, inscrutable intention and everything in the world has its own secret name, a name that cannot be conveyed in language but is simply the sight and feel of the thing itself.”
“Heroin spread that soft blanket over everything. But once the blanket was ripped off, it took a layer of skin with it, leaving nothing but nerve ends screaming in the breeze.”
“I worship the quicksand he walks in.”
“Some must delve when the dawn is nigh; Some must toil when the noonday beams; But when might comes, and the soft winds sigh, Every man is a King of Dreams.”
“I used to think business was 50 percent having the right people. Now I think it's 80 percent.”
“I've written quite a few things, but I've put it on hold for now to see how everything fits together. Then I'll approach it and write specifically to see how the pieces fit in the puzzle.”

Source : "Ex-Weezer bassist Matt Sharp reuniting rentals for 'the long haul'" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. March 20, 2006.
“I understand true life doesn't happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others.”

Source : Mary E DeMuth (2010). “Thin Places: A Memoir”, p.48, Zondervan

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