"The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other."

-- Yann Martel

#Swings Quotes #Opposites Quotes #Boredom Quotes

“I sat there and forgot and forgot, until what remained was the river that went by and I who watched. On the river the heat mirages danced with each other and then they danced through each other and then they joined hands and danced around each other. Eventually the water joined the river, and there was only one of us. I believe it was the river.”

Source : Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.61, University of Chicago Press
“Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.”
“Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master.”
“Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.”
“An industry devoted to serving the public's right to know gives twisted and evil men the means of becoming known.Â This problem is not obviously amenable to a solution, and it certainly is not amenable to a legal one. A regime of media regulation that would be both effective at preventing mass shootings and consistent with the American Constitution is no easier to imagine than a regime of gun regulation that would meet the same criteria.”
“Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.”
“There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.”
“A hard beginning maketh a good ending.”

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