"Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when you don't know anything, not even as much as you did when you were younger, and you don't even have a philosophy about all the things you don't know, the way you did when you were twenty or would again when you were thirty-eight."

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Source : FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Dec 25, 2011

Lorrie Moore

#Philosophy Quotes #Eight Quotes #Stupidity Quotes

“Openness isn't the end; it's the beginning.”
“Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the readerâ€™s eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin.”

Source : Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being”, p.16, Canongate Books
“I remember what it was like to be doing 'Lost' and how creatively immersive it was. I just couldn't really engage on anything else, other than 'Lost;' I was just thinking about it all the time, and then there was just the pure workload, the 70- or 80-hour weeks.”
“Once in a while - perhaps every 10 years, or even every generation - a novel appears that profoundly questions the way we look at the world, and at ourselves. Beijing Coma is a poetic examination not just of a country at a defining moment in its history, but of the universal right to remember and to hope. It is, in every sense, a landmark work of fiction”

Source : "Growing up in the world". www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2008.
“Love is so simple. [Fr., C'est tellement simple, l'amour.]”
“Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.”
“George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that.”
“What is at stake is preserving our relations with the United States. They should not be changed because of what has happened. But trust has to be restored and reinforced.”

Source : "NSA files - Merkel and Hollande call for talks with US by end of year - live" by Paul Owen, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2013.

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