"I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are."

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Source : Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.332, Simon and Schuster

Simone Elkeles

#Leaving Quotes #Trying Quotes #Want Quotes

“Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn't allow us to forget.”

Source : Irena Sendler's letter to the Polish Senate (2007), as quoted in "Irena Sendler: An Unsung Heroine" by Louis Bulow, www.auschwitz.dk. 2007.
“Now there's a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here!”
“Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours.”
“I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.”
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
“Heaven is angered by my arrogance; my proof [of the four-color theorem] is also defective.”
“... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people tend to observe a rainy day.”

Source : Alessandro Baricco (1998). “Silk”, Vintage
“Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.”

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