"The Exodus from Egypt occurs in every human being, in every era, in every year, and in every day."

-- Nachman of Breslov

#Years Quotes #Egypt Quotes #Eras Quotes

“Son, if the mountain were smooth, you couldn't climb it.”
“The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.”
“It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.”
“I grew up reading biographies on groups, and I love all that. The thing about biographies, it's the old clichÃ© but it's true - a lot of the time these things are more about the author than they are about the group.”

Source : "Belle and Sebastian". Interview with Gretta Cohn, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2006.
“Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.”

Source : Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”
“This feeling is not unlike the sinking in one's stomach when one is in an elevator that suddenly goes down, or when you are snug in your bed and your closet door suddenly creaks open to reveal the person who has been hiding there.”
“It was one thing, after all, to know his feelings for Amanda hadn't changed; it was another thing entirely to face the future with the certainty that they never would.”
“And anyway, the truth isn't all that great. I mean, what's the truth? Planes falling out of the sky. Buses blowing up and ripping little kids into millions of pieces. Twelve-year-olds raping people and then shooting them in the head so they can't tell. I can't watch the news anymore or look at the papers. It's like whoever sits up there in Heaven has this big bag of really crappy stuff, and once or twice a day she or he reaches in and sprinkles a little bit of it over the world and makes everything crazy, like fairy dust that's past its expiration date.”

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