Top 22 Adrian Barnes Quotes
#1. Nobody says these things - it's against the rules - but deep inside we know that we are, each of us, unknowable and ultimately alone, even when we love. Most
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#2. And we weren't a species interested in facts, as such. We were more into evading or spinning them.
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#3. I said,'What's your problem?' Asshole." There was a question behind his question, and that shadow question was 'Do you want to dance?
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#4. There is a point of obesity where, like it or not, whatever your other personal achievements or qualities, all you are is "the fat man" or "the fat lady", The world is a gawking four-year old.
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#5. Every day is important; each day make us. Even the nothing ones especially those, given how they slit up, slowly burying other, seemingly more momentous, moments beneath their weight. I see that now.
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#6. that the reason we know others exist is because when they look at us, we feel looked at. He called the entity that was staring back at us the Other.
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#7. What we can't change has to be a church', Paul. Get it?
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#8. There's a natural point in the development of any religion where the prophet becomes first a nuisance and then a positive liability. Just imagine Jesus walking into an evangelical church while the collection plate was being passed around
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#9. -but deep inside we know that we are, each of us, unknowable and ultimately alone, even when we love.
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#11. Children are the eternal, silent witnesses to every human sin.
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#12. That's what you do when you run out of options: you go home.
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#14. To use the old jailhouse term and not the modern rock and roll one, a punk's question.
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#15. Someone once said that we get more difficult to love with each passing year because, over time, our histories grow so tangled that newcomers can no longer bushwhack their way into the thicketed and overgrown depths of our hearts.
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#16. Hell is time, isn't that obvious? Take your greatest pleasure or your greatest fantasy and let it come continuously true - for a day, a week, a year, a decade. And that's hell.
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#17. But as it turns out, love doesn't set us free - love keeps standing outside the jail on an endless candlelight vigil. So love? Yes, love was pain as well. Especially love.
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#18. There was more than safety in Charles' numbers: there was consensus, there was culture, there was reality.
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#19. I think now that if all eight billion of us had just shut off the lights and gone to bed that night and left it alone we'd have all slept and the chalice would have passed us by. But let's be real. Whoever leaves anything alone? Life's a scab, and it's our nature to pick at it until it bleeds.
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#20. And even if I'd wanted to mourn, four or five million were too many to shed tears over. Tears are more personal than that. We don;t read a news story about twenty thousand dead in an earthquake and weep. at best, we sigh and tell the wife. More often, we shrug and go check our Facebook messages.
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#22. I could pull off a 'man', but never, quite, a 'dude'.
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