"My house fly theory is related to my theory about why time seems to go faster as you get older." "Why's that?" the girl asked. "It's proportional," Leonard explained. "When you're five, you've only been alive a couple thousand days. But by the time you're fifty, you've lived around twenty thousand days. So a day when you're five seems longer because it's a greater percentage of the whole."

-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Girl Quotes #Couple Quotes #House Quotes

“Singers actually used to begin singing at a much younger age than they do now. I would say for me, I started late. But it's not unusual. I discovered I had a voice. I wanted to be a pianist when I was seven, and circumstances didn't allow that I studied it.”

Source : "For Opera Powerhouse Dolora Zajick, 'Singing Is Connected To The Body'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 25, 2015.
“I get really bored if I don't have more than one thing going on.”
“When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom”
“I don't want to develop a personality, just cut my face! Stretch it and staple it. Now I'm happy, or at least I look like it.”
“It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.”
“My most romantic job: I was a manager at Baskin-Robbins.”
“The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it." "But it'd be there.”

Source : James Jones (2012). “The World War II Trilogy: From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line, and Whistle”, p.1090, Open Road Media
“The artist looks for a subject. You know, a lot of new poets don't seem to have a subject. I don't totally understand that.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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