Craig Stone Quotes

#1. The question should be who do we want to be when we grow up, not what.

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#2. I listened to the crashing thundering of a tiny tear tumbling like a wave down her beautiful face.

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#3. She danced like no one was watching, but she knew that I was.

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#4. Smile sometimes: it won't add years to your life, but it will add life to your years.

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#5. His smile is a stranger resting on a haunted face, only coming out for poisons turning him into a ghost.

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#6. Humans are born free then put into cages, then convinced freedom is what being in a cage is, and what freedom is, is being in a cage.

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#7. Sleep doesn't come easy when a broken twig conjures images of a hulking mental patient snapping the arms off children, over by the bin.

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#8. We only borrow the breaths we take in life. Every breath we borrow we give back, including our last. In the end, no matter how we lived, we all die feeling owed.

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#9. They put money into attack, by calling it defence.

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#10. My landlord lives in the flat at the bottom of the stairs. I rent a studio flat from him, and live at the top of the staircase. There are two more flights of stairs and four more flats, but it's me he is obsessed with.

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#11. I was just another lost soul screaming through the paper thin hotel walls into the ears of the fucked.

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#12. In the end, they will say this of the human race: they had the freedom to go anywhere, but sat in front of the television. They were each responsible for saving the world, but they turned over the channel.

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#13. Ask questions then talk over answers, shout loudly you love everyone, try and hug people, confide in them that you are a sheep, offer them the last grass in your pockets.
Then watch with a smile as they pretend you aren't there, and whisper you must be crazy, because you want to make friends.

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#14. Better to live dreaming, than dream of living.

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#15. Humans are born with two perfectly good lungs, into the only environment in the universe those lungs have evolved over millions of years to breathe in.

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#16. When we're young nothing offends us, except adults telling us what should. Then when we become adults, nothing offends us, except we are offended on behalf of our young.

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#17. Love is a grin, a look in the eye whispering what are we doing, appearing in silly arguments had for the sake of them.

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#18. Friday dusk becomes Friday evening. The park is feverish with life. A young Asian man screams into his mobile phone, not stopping to listen: a young man with his heart in his penis.

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#19. Nobody has to do anything wrong to end up living a life that feels like it's not their own, all they have to do is take a step back, and hope for the best.

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#20. At the end of the world the sunset is like a child smashing a pack of crayons into God's face.

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#21. There is nothing more deceptive, more grandeur, than the delusion of a single man.

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#22. Anything you want to do is possible; fear is not meant to prevent but to motivate your heart into the life you naturally think is improbable

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#23. My search for more attributes ended when I was halted in my tracks by the sky in her eyes looking back.
I took the ball. And she noticed the sky in my eyes too.
Our eyes kissed, and from that moment, we were inseparable.

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#24. Love is born from disagreeing over something we believe in. Hate is born from disagreeing over something we fear.

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#25. Some days I am the flower beneath the machine. And the machine rolls slowly on, blocking the sun, without a care for what it tramples beneath.

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#26. He brings the cigarette butt to his mouth and lights up. He breathes in, and coughs; a rattling helicopter with a broken blade crashing into a herd of trombone playing sheep falling off a cliff into a DIY shop with a discount on spanners.

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#27. We dream of the world we could have made, and wake up in the world that we did.

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#28. Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll evolve to become so skilled at fishing he destroys the ocean and kills every last fish.

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#29. I wonder if I'm being paranoid. I tell myself I'm not, and then ask myself how I can be so sure? I don't know the answer, so I go back to wondering if I am.

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#30. Lies are ants, the truth is the sun, and questions are a magnifying glass waiting to be picked up by the curious.

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#31. Love is a pig dressed as a clown sitting in a bath full of beans: pretty much amazing, once you get over the shock.

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#32. People that talk about living in the real world don't even enjoy living in the real world.

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#33. If humans had nothing to fight for, they would fight for nothing.

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#34. A person dies every second, but there's also a six year old somewhere, every second, trying to move an apple with his mind.

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#35. Our problems come not from what we believe, but from how we believe in what we do.

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#36. My eyes open after my mind. All eyes always do.

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#37. All the best bits of a film happen when I'm looking down at my phone. Life, is similar.

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#38. I want to avoid people, because there's only one thing worse than being homeless, and that's people who are not, knowing that you are.

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#39. A watched pot never boils, but if I took my eyes from these negative thoughts for a second they would spill over the edges of my lips, and boil the beautiful moment alive as we lived it.

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#40. There really is no time for wallowing in the miseries of life: we don't have all the time in the world, we have all the world, and not enough time.

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#41. Without a passport humans wouldn't know where they're from, who they are or who their enemy is, and their enemy wouldn't know why they had an enemy, what language they spoke, and where best to avoid.
The passport is said to be what makes them free, but if freedom is given, freedom cannot be free.

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#42. The evolution of the brain is directly proportionate to the evolution of humanity. Only when the brain has collected enough data about war, will it move on to collate information about love.

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#43. Sometimes you need to sit in the wrong place to see the right view.

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#44. The word begone is a Russian doll. A small, single word, which contains so many others; and when all the smaller words inside line up, they look like a bridge: Be Beg Ego Go On One.

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#45. Without the sleeping bag I'm just somebody up early in the morning, sitting under a tree. With the sleeping bag I'm nobody up early, sitting under a tree: a slight, but important difference in how I'll be perceived.

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#46. The sharpest tools in the box are not always the best tools for the job.

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#47. Only the dying take pleasure in the details of what the healthy fail to notice.

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#48. When someone falls asleep on your chest, but the one really falling is you.

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