"But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable."

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Walker Percy

#Giving Up Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“I keep a lighter in my back pocket all the time. I'm not a smoker, I just really like certain songs.”
“Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.”
“There are no people who are whole" he says. "Everyone has issues of their own to deal with. Mine might be a little harder, but the main thing is how on deals with them.”

Source : Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.238, Granta Books
“The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.”
“The object of jihad is to bring the whole world under Islamic Law.”

Source : Bernard Lewis (1995). “The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years”, p.234, Simon and Schuster
“A lot of that I base on, "Is it still going to sound interesting and fresh to me in five years, am I going to be embarrassed by this in five years?" It's easier for me to do stark, moody, pretty stuff, and I have all this pop stuff inside me, but it's a lot more dangerous, and pop is just apt to sound contrived and sort of pedestrian if you're not careful.”
“There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.”
“The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.”

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