Adam Haslett Quotes

It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.

Adam Haslett

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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.

Kate Bush
- Live
- Mystery
- Busy
It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.

Barbara Mandrell
- Family
- Bad
- Difficult
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

Mahatma Gandhi
- Religion
- Matter
- Own
While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.

Ted Deutch
- American
- War
- Soldiers
I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

Harold Pinter
- People
- Day
- Betrayal
The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.

Wayne Dyer