"All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty. People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who cares what kind, drowning themselves in a lack of moderation, raising a glass to lower inhibitions, imbibing spirits to raise their own."

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Source : Monique Truong (2004). “The Book of Salt: A Novel”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Monique Truong

#Glasses Quotes #Vintage Quotes #People Quotes

“I felt a lot of ambivalence about going back to graduate school for a second MFA. The impulse was really the opposite from what it had been more than a decade before: I wanted to interrupt a career.”
“Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover bands when I was a teenager we only played cover tunes that we liked. That was the simple morality that I grew up with.”
“The technical process which is interesting in it's own right but I think the creative process is what's more intriguing to me.”

Source : Source: www.tvequals.com
“Christian Research Institute will continue doing what we do ... making people so familiar with truth that when counterfeits loom on the horizon, they know it instantaneously. So we're a discernment ministry, continually trying to build Christians up so that they can discern between truth and error.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“It became a lucrative misconception, that movement in any direction is progression”
“The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence.”

Source : Andrew DELBANCO (2009). “The Real American Dream”, p.114, Harvard University Press
“I met Patti LuPone and Elaine Paige in a party. I didnt speak too much with Patti, but she was lovely with me.”
“The different political systems, religions and social habits demonstrate that the same brain can be tuned in different manners. But the tuning capacity is limited. We can never feel as a jaguar, for example. We can imagine a man who believes or who intends to be a jaguar, but to intend is not the same as to be. We can have other ideologies, but we will continue restricted by the nature of our brain and of our body.”

Source : Source: www.cerebromente.org.br

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