Janet Turpin Myers Quotes

#1. Was the dementia of old age a blessing in disguise? No more thoughts. No more damage inflicted. No more memories of damage survived.

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#2. How can growing up really be about falling down?

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#3. The universe is a gathering of nows that I spread before my feet like a landscape.

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#4. Such is the dilemma of the atheist. Who to thank? It's a terrible condition, to feel one's heart swelling with the wonders of our world and yet have nobody to thank for it. It makes a man feel thwarted.

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#5. Why doesn't anyone go to the moon anymore? What happened to our optimism?

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#6. Blessing Number One. Thank you for getting old because it means you are getting to live.

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#7. I doubt I would use the word 'casualty'. There is nothing casual about killing.

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#8. I've always felt sorry for Mike Collins, driving all the way to the moon but not allowed out of the car to look around.

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#9. If I had a wish it would be this: that Google maps could take me, not to just anywhere on the planet, but to anywhere in time.

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#10. Thank you for annoying neighbours, for they allow us to practise our ability to love.

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#11. Everybody knows, a humungous thing happened on Sunday, July 20th, 1969 at exactly 4:17E.D.T. The 'Eagle' has landed. Bingo. Just like that. Man became an alien.

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#12. At that moment when John Lennon settled his voice on the back of a dove and released it to the world, could he have possibly imagined that all these years later, I would be here in my office imagining us imagining him?

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#13. I learned that adults were not soaring gods, but rather back-yard birds with broken wingtips.
When you are thirteen, about to free-fall into the real world, discovering the broken wingtips is terrifying.

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