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“Everyone moans about the collapsing U.S. infrastructure.”
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“We all have ideas about love and death. We keep a close eye out for them our entire lives, seeking one and avoiding the other, knowing all the while that both are mostly beyond our control. It is a both scary and exciting predicament. In the end, it all depends on how you look at it. One thing is for sure; it is never quite what you expect.”
Source : Tonya Hurley (2012). “Ghostgirl: Lovesick”, p.178, Hachette UK
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“So much of the news was invented for propaganda.”
Source : Elsa Morante (2015). “History: A Novel”, p.73, Steerforth
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“Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.”
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“The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity.”
Source : Amin Maalouf (2001). “In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong”, p.16, Arcade Publishing
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“Clarity comes from action, not thought.”
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“I think that France, Germany, Spain, Holland and England will join Brazil in the semi-finals.”
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“Whatever capacities there may be for enjoyment or for suffering in this strange being of ours, and God only knows what they are, they will be drawn out wholly in accordance with character.”
Source : Mark Hopkins (1884). “Teachings and Counsels: Twenty Baccalaureate Sermons; with a Discourse on President Garfield”
