"He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to think of it as a kind of penance. It was self-destructive, he could see that, but that was the way things were. People smoked, they jumped out of airplanes, they drank too much and got into their cars and drove without seat belts."

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Source : Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.300, Penguin

Kim Edwards

#Father Quotes #Airplane Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“How do you solve a mystery? How do you write a book? The techniques for starting both are surprisingly similar. Find an intriguing question and, pen and dagger tucked under cloak, search for clues.”
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
“There are millions of white Americans today who still can barely bring themselves to acknowledge that the Civil War, with its twin Americas locked in a death match, was about slavery. They'll argue it was about economics, and they're right only because one of those economies was a slave economy. They'll argue it was about culture, and they're right only because one of those cultures was a slave culture.”

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“And even though people like to furrow their brow like they suspect you're not being honest about yourself, the truth is that they worry that you're not serving their idea of you.”

Source : Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Ben Greenman (2013). “Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove”, p.143, Hachette UK
“There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the Juliaverse... energy was never lost, merely converted from one form to another. Here, I took butter and cream and meat and eggs and I made delicious sustenance.”
“Money isn't the most important thing. It is important, of course. I am not Mahatma Gandhi.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The choices that we make aren't always perfect but it's ok, It's part of the journey.”
“Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems.”

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