"Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate."

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Source : David Rakoff (2013). “Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel”, p.94, Doubleday

David Rakoff

#Hate Quotes #Book Quotes #Love Is Quotes

“Once you start deliberately offering thought, then you can never offer enough action to keep up with the thought. Once you access the Energy that creates worlds, a huge vortex comes into place, and there's just not enough action for you to keep up with that. And so, what you have to do is visualize every step of the way, envision you happy in the process. Envision things in place, envision people catching on. Just envision it working. Skip over the how and the where and the when and the who - and just stay focused upon the what and the why. Abraham”
“But will I always love her? Does my love for her reside in my head or my heart? The scientist in her believed that emotion resulted from complex limbic brain circuitry that was for her, at this very moment, trapped in the trenches of a battle in which there would be no survivors. The mother in her believed that the love she hadd for her daughter was safe from the mayhem in her mind, because it lived in her heart.”

Source : Lisa Genova (2010). “Still Alice”, p.172, Simon and Schuster
“True wealth is having your health, and knowledge of self.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 6, 2014
“Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing.”
“My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house.”
“A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put.”
“I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.”
“That's not a role you prepare for. There's no preparation. You don't have time to prepare for the reading of an audiobook. You do the reading of an audiobook in basically two days' time - an unabridged version, maybe three days.”

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