Pg 163 Quotes

#1. People use each other as markers for what's real, so you can't be alone anymore. Solitude draws suspicions.

pg. 163

S.K. Kalsi

#2. The heat of late afternoon closed in around us like an animate thing; you could feel it on your skin, warm and moist, like a great beast panting. The air was so dense it seemed to require a huge effort even to inhale it. It lay thick in the lungs and seemed to give no refreshment. Pg 163

Geraldine Brooks

#3. As the years progress and we experience more and more, the mini-narratives that make up our lives are distorted, corrupted, so that every one of us is left with a false history, a self-created fiction about the live we have led. pg 163

Michelle Richmond

#4. If I said in one of my songs that my English teacher wanted to have sex with me in junior high, all I'm saying, is that I'm not gay, you know? People confuse the lyrics for me speaking my mind. I don't agree with that lifestyle, but if that lifestyle is for you, then it's your business.

Eminem

#5. The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice.

John Lancaster Spalding

#6. Your father says a wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountaintop.

Deborah Harkness

#7. It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#8. I never thought to ask her name, Father, but you know the little mulberry girl as you know each sparrow of the field. You are the white berry that removes the stain.

Lisa Wingate

#9. I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.

Andrew Young

#10. Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods.

David Sylvester

#11. From a Buddhist point of view, emotions are not real. As an actor, I manufacture emotions. They're a sense of play. But real life is the same. We're just not aware of it.

Richard Gere

#12. Keep Writing, Keep Living, Keep Loving

Frank Ocean

#13. Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.

Romare Bearden

#14. It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this.

David O. Russell

#15. Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

Ezra Pound