"All I meant was that people take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that. And some places have a way of magnifying your demons, or of, I don't know, giving them pep pills."

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Source : Julia Glass (2003). “Three Junes”, Vintage

Julia Glass

#Perfect Quotes #People Quotes #Giving Quotes

“You never want to fail because you didn't work hard enough.”
“How could I leave Prim, who is the only person in the world Iâ€™m certain I love?”
“I make music to touch the souls of people as it's a language we all can speak.”
“It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.”

Source : "Fictional character: The Once-ler". "The Lorax", 2012.
“I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it.”
“Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star. Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried, Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar.”
“You donâ€™t pay attention man/thatâ€™s why your money is the size of your attention span.”
“Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.”

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