The run-down nature of the high-rise was a model of the world into which the future was carrying them, a landscape beyond technology where everything was either derelict or more ambiguously recombined in unexpected but more meaningful ways
I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts....
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Nora Ephron
When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.
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Shannon L. Alder
If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.
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Roy T. Bennett
Ester asked why people are sad." That’s simple, " says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it...
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Paulo Coelho
Once you realize you deserve a bright future, letting go of your dark past is the best choice you will ever make.
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Roy T. Bennett
More Quotes By J.G. Ballard
In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom.
Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.
Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.
All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The past, whether Renaissance Italy or Ancient Egypt, is re-assimilated and homogenized into its most digestible form. Desperate for the new, but disappointed with...
First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state of childishness and even, perhaps, feel affection for him. Then, the moment he was asleep, cut his throat. The synopsis of the ideal...
