"We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float."

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Source : Teju Cole (2011). “Open City: A Novel”, p.172, Random House

Teju Cole

#Fall Quotes #Past Quotes #Space Quotes

“In modelling or football, being 30 is very bad. But, for an actress, ageing is like wine. You taste better and better because your body, your mind, your feelings, all this is a tool and it's getting sharper with time.”
“Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.”
“In terms of President Trump, I really do hope that he does accomplish some of the things he said on the campaign trail. If he is willing to make investments in infrastructure, but not on the backs of the middle class and the working class, and put people back to work, that would be a good thing. If he's serious about making Obamacare better, and not pulling the rug out from 20 million Americans who benefit from it, that would be a good thing too.”
“For the average person walking down a dark street late at night, a promise from a politician is worth far less than a .38 Special.”
“Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs.”

Source : "Larry Gelbart's `M*A*S*H' Memories and Comic Asides" by Larry Gelbart, www.sfgate.com. May 17, 1998.
“When you get to a place where you don't go for what you can get, but you go for what you can give, you gonna see your life change tremendously.”
“Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life be without it?”
“Deep Listening is listening to everything all the time, and reminding yourself when you're not. But going below the surface too, it's an active process. It's not passive. I mean hearing is passive in that soundwaves hinge upon the eardrum. You can do both. You can focus and be receptive to your surroundings. If you're tuned out, then you're not in contact with your surroundings. You have to process what you hear. Hearing and listening are not the same thing.”

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