"Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then find it impossible to release my fingers and let the picture drop and disappear."

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Source : "Soulful" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 4, 2011.

#Trying Quotes #Impossible Quotes #Photograph Quotes

“Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late.”
“Because of you, in Afghanistan we've broken the momentum of the Taliban. Because of you, we've begun a transition to the Afghans that will allow us to bring our troops home from there. And around the globe, as we draw down in Iraq, we have gone after al Qaeda so that terrorists who threaten America will have no safe haven, and Osama bin Laden will never again walk the face of this Earth.”
“The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.”
“The heart of assimilation process of absorbing minorities lies in the self-image of a nation. There are, as you will know, big differences for instance between the self-image of the French and the English. And the Germans, in accordance with their rather chequered history, had at least in the past very little capacity for absorbing minorities.”

Source : Source: quod.lib.umich.edu
“A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.”
“I'm a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know? Am I alone there? Not really.”

Source : "Leighton Meester Opens Up About Fat Days" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. January 21, 2011.
“I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!”

Source : TV Legends, August 6, 2005.
“You may talk about Free Love, if you please, but we are to have the right to vote. To-day we are fined, imprisoned, and hanged, without a jury trial by our peers. You shall not cheat us by getting us off to talk about something else. When we get the suffrage, then you may taunt us with anything you please, and we will then talk about it as long as you please.”

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