"Old people are often impatient, but for what?"

-- Jonathan Carroll

#People Quotes #Impatient Quotes #Old People Quotes

“There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the manners from the texture of existence that surrounds you. The great advantage of being a Southern writer is that we don't have to go anywhere to look for manners; bad or good, we've got them in abundance. We in the South live in a society that is rich in contradiction, rich in irony, rich in contrast, and particularly rich in its speech”
“A blanket attempt to avoid mistakes is the biggest mistake of all.”
“Unless you really stand for something, people aren't motivated to go out and vote for you.”
“Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.”
“I've gotten to where my hair is like my onstage prop; I need to hide behind it and throw it around - it's my slo-mo effect.”
“The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.”
“You should have a 1-on-1 roughly every 2 weeks.”
“When he wakes sometimes from dark dreams of broken cradles, and compasses without bearings, he pushes the unease down, lets the daylight contradict it. And isolation lulls him with the music of the lie.”

Source : M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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