"All of living is nothing but a fervid attempt to move closer together."

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Source : Thomas Bernhard (2010). “Gargoyles: A Novel”, p.40, Vintage

Thomas Bernhard

#Moving Quotes #Together Quotes

“I first foreswore motherhood when I was about eight years old. ... [Children] were annoying. We were loud and sneaky and broke things. As an eight-year-old, maybe I was simply mortified by the prospect of being saddled with myself.”
“It is a woman's business to be interested in the environment. It's an extended form of housekeeping.”
“What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.”
“I think that presidents deserve to be questioned. Maybe irreverently, most of the time. Bring 'em down a size. You see a president, ask a question. You have one chance in the barrel. Don't blow it.”

Source : "Thank You, Mr. President: Helen Thomas at the White House" by Ray Richmond, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 14, 2008.
“I'm trying to find peace in the world, as it is. I'm feeling this sort of slow stripping of my mind, like the layers of an onion. I'm starting to see through all these little structures that have been imposed on me by my society that tell me how I'm supposed to view my life and the world. What I'm supposed to find to be important and what is not. Sometimes you see through so much of it that you feel like you're just a leaf blowing on the wind.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Maybe youâ€™ll marry, maybe you wonâ€™t, maybe youâ€™ll have children, maybe you wonâ€™t, maybe youâ€™ll divorce at 40, maybe youâ€™ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversaryâ€¦what ever you do, donâ€™t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either â€“ your choices are half chance, so are everybody elseâ€™s.”

Source : Song: Everybody's Free
“A startup can focus on only one metric. So you have to decide what that is and ignore everything else.”
“In my opinion, moderation is a vastly overrated virtue, particularly when applied to work”

Source : Barbara Taylor Bradford (1987). “A Woman of Substance”, Bantam

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