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Being There Quotes (page 109)

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. Charlotte Bronte
There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again. Douglas Adams
There is a timbre of voicethat comes from not being heardand knowing / you are not beingheard / noticed onlyby others / not heardfor the same reason. Audre Lorde
There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct? not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration. Thomas Hardy
There is no sadness and no cruelty in that gaze; it is a gaze without adjectives, it is only, completely, a gaze which neither judges you nor appeals to you; it posits you, implicates you; makes you exist. But this creative gesture is endless; you keep on being born, you are sustained, carried to the end of a movement which is one of infinite origin, source, and which appears in an eternal state of suspension. Roland Barthes
There’s a whole psychological reason for those cartoons about good against evil. We have "Superman" and all those other hero people, so that we can go out into life and try to be something. I’ve got most of Disney’s animated movies on video-tapes, and when we watch them. Oh, I could just eat it, eat it. […] Jimmy Cricket, Pinocchio, Mickey Mouse – these are world-known characters. Some of the greatest political figures have come to the United States to meet them. Michael Jackson
There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things. Jon Ronson
William Goldman quote: "There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would..."
There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours. William Goldman
E. L. Doctorow quote: "There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by..."
There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking. E. L. Doctorow
Thomas Harris quote: "There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet..."
There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt. Thomas Harris
Elizabeth Bowen quote: "there must be something she wanted; and that therefore she was..."
...there must be something she wanted; and that therefore she was no lady. Elizabeth Bowen
Jeanette Winterson quote: "There are voices and they must be heard."
There are voices and they must be heard. Jeanette Winterson
Peter Drucker quote: "There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great..."
There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all. Peter Drucker
There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'. Philip K. Dick
Stephen King quote: "There’s an idea that hell is other people. My idea is that it..."
There’s an idea that hell is other people. My idea is that it might be repetition. Stephen King

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