"Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle."

-- William Graham Sumner

#Men Quotes #Circles Quotes #Debt Quotes

“Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.”
“One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.”
“I want to be a writer you can always depend on for a good read during your vacation, during your flight, during a time in your life when you want to forget the world around you.”
“The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.”

Source : Michel Faber (2014). “The Book of Strange New Things”, p.31, Canongate Books
“Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward.”

Source : Roberto Calasso (1993). “The marriage of Cadmus and Harmony”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
“People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.”
“Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.”
“Had you restrained your love, you would be free of sorrow. The greater the love, while one possesses it, the greater the sorrow when one is deprived of it.”

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