"There are words and there are feelings and somewhere between where the two meet is the truth"

--

Source : Laura Dave (2007). “London Is the Best City in America”, p.246, Penguin

Laura Dave

#Two Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“I'm often asked the same question: What in your work comes from your own culture? As if I have a recipe and I can actually isolate the Arab ingredient, the woman ingredient, the Palestinian ingredient. People often expect tidy definitions of otherness, as if identity is something fixed and easily definable.”
“Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.”
“O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold Are but a cheat contrived by men of old Who lusted after wealth and gained their lust And died in baseness-and their law is dust.”
“A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.”
“It is our mind, and that alone, that chains us or sets us free.”
“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.”
“The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.”

Source : Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, G S G & Associates Pub
“To be really honest, I don't love the gym.”

You may also like:

Adriana Trigiani
Novelist
David James Duncan
Novelist
J. Courtney Sullivan
Novelist
Jane Green
Author
Katherine Center
Author
Liane Moriarty
Author
Lynda Obst
Film producer
Meg Waite Clayton
Novelist
Samantha Hunt
Novelist