"When you're young - when I was young - you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want them to overturn your life, create and define a new reality. Later, I think, you want them to do something milder, something more practical: you want them to support your life as it is and has become. You want them to tell you that things are OK. And is there anything wrong with that?"

-- Julian Barnes

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Reality Quotes

“We can't really waste our time; we have to see that we are all in the same boat and that different religious traditions point in the same direction, and now let's get moving together, doing something for peace.”
“When you draw, you copy the world don't you? You remake it on paper, but it isn't the same. It's yours. No one else could have created it just like that. When I make poems, I use the words we all use, but the order and the sound create a new power. This wood is someone's creation. We stumble through it's tendrils, as if we're crawling through the synapses of his mind.”

Source : Catherine Fisher (2005). “Darkhenge”, Bodley Head Childrens
“I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't.”
“Abraham Lincoln got shot and died, Freed the slaves so they put him on the five.”

Source : Song: Money in the Ghetto
“Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have to respect the Turkish Republic's laws”
“When you read the Bible, you must think that here and now, God is speaking with me”
“You're like a tornado of bullshit right now. We'll talk again when your bullshit dies out over someone else's house.”
“When someone really goes to tell you something about what they're thinking, they're going to wear that experience with them. That's what you have to share.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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