"I travel backwards and forwards quite a lot. I live very near to the train station. I'm kind of playing at being an expatriate, I suppose."

-- Jarvis Cocker

#Kind Quotes #Expatriates Quotes #Train Stations Quotes

“If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.”
“Only the flowing water is pure and sweet. Only the spinning top and the moving bicycle do not fall over. Rest is not found in irregular and purposeless motion, nor is it stagnation; all real and firm rest is to be sought in harmonious action.”
“The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.”
“The continual cracking of your feet on the road makes a certain quantity of road come up into you. When a man dies they say he returns to clay but too much walking fills you up with clay far sooner (or buries bits of you along the road) and brings your death half-way to meet you. It is not easy to know what is the best way to move yourself from one place to another.”

Source : Flann O'Brien (2007). “The Complete Novels”, Everyman's Library
“The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too.”

Source : Thomas McGuane (2015). “Panama”, p.46, Macmillan
“Indifference is the dead weight of history.”

Source : Antonio Gramsci (1975). “History, Philosophy and Culture in the Young Gramsci”
“Developing concern for others, thinking of them as part of us, brings self-confidence , reduces our sense of suspicion and mistrust, and enables us to develop a calm mind.”
“Life is what you do while you're waiting to die... Life is how the time goes by”

Source : "I Love Making Deals". "I Am American Business" Interview, www.cnbc.com. June 24, 2012.

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