"I wasn't safe. I wasn't permanent. My life was a fiction I had created, like an alien who comes to earth and tries to pass as human. The affections of my friends meant nothing to me, directed, as they were, toward a person who wasn't there. There was nobody home."

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Source : Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.105, Algonquin Books

Robert Goolrick

#Home Quotes #Trying Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“The truth about parenting is that the reality of our lives needs to be enough.”
“No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution. It is a suitable pledge of his fidelity and responsibility to his country; and creates upon his conscience a deep sense of duty, by an appeal, at once in the presence of God and man, to the most sacred and solemn sanctions which can operate upon the human mind.”
“Some beliefs are rigid, like the body of death, impotent in a changing world. Other beliefs are pliable, like the young sapling, ever growing with the upward thrust of life.”

Source : Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs (1952). “Today's children and yesterday's heritage: a philosophy of creative religious development”
“It took Einstein ten years of groping through the fog to get the theory of special relativity, and he was a bright guy.”
“Every day you play with the light of the universe.”

Source : Pablo Neruda (1990). “Selected Poems”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I have a great faith in God and Jesus.”

Source : "Detroit Tigers Longtime Broadcaster Ernie Harwell Passes Away", www.foxnews.com. May 4, 2010.
“Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.”
“By a persistent effort of will it is possible to change the whole body. The athlete must always keep in mind this concept of change and progression. He must never accept his limitations as being permanent, because they are not.”

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