"But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. Itâ€™s a mistake of emphasis."

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Source : Nicholson Baker (2009). “The Anthologist: A Novel”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

Nicholson Baker

#Mistake Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Credit Quotes

“A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.”
“People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give them respect, they give you power, cause they don't think they have any, so they don't mind giving it up.”
“Worse that drugs is drug trafficking. Much worse. Drugs are a disease, and I don't think that there are good drugs or that ***** is good. Nor cigarettes. No addiction is good. I include alcohol. The only good addiction is love. Forget everything else.”
“There are bills being discussed to raise the amount that Members of Congress pay in to their benefits and I support these pieces of legislation.”

Source : "Rob Woodall Won’t Give Up Government Health Care ‘Because It’s Free’" by Ryan Grim, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.
“You can only give things up once they start to let you down.”

Source : Edward St Aubyn (2014). “The Patrick Melrose Novels: Picador Classic”, p.285, Pan Macmillan
“I have an idea and a first line -- and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what Iâ€™m going to say, or where itâ€™s going. I have some idea of how long itâ€™s going to be -- but not what will happen or what the themes will be. Thatâ€™s the intrigue of doing it -- itâ€™s a process of discovery. You get to discover what youâ€™re going to say and what itâ€™s going to mean.”
“Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.”
“Of all the well-meant emotions pity is the cruelest to share.”

Source : "A Door into Ocean". Book by Joan Slonczewski, 1986.

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