"Thatâ€™s what a map is, you know. Just a memory."

--

Catherynne M. Valente

#Memories Quotes #Maps Quotes

“This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.”
“Do me a favor... Stand up, walk to wherever the nearest window is, and just look outside. You may not know this, but there's an entire planets-worth of summers, friends, sunsets, street lamps, songs, late nights, great films, and night skies waiting for you. Your life is as amazing as you want it to be, but first, you have to let it be that way.”
“As an investment banker, I'm in the cross-flow of information and the changes that are taking place in capital markets.”
“The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.”
“And now -- now it only remains for me to light a cigarette and go home. Dear God, only now am I remembering that people die. Does that include me? Don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes.”
“It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else.”

Source : Michael Frayn (1985). “Plays--one”, Methuen Drama
“I used the name Jane Roe because I didnt want my personal name to be involved in it.”
“Just because you can watch half-nude women on afternoon television or gay men kissing on the streets of nearly any major city does not mean America is free, as complacent liberals might think, much less too free, as conservatives often suggest. Just because most dissidents are left alone doesn't mean there is no police state, for that would be convenient indeed for the police statists: the idea that people ought not complain so long as they have the right to do so.”

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