David Markson Quotes
The morning’s recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come.
Quotes to Explore
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The American dream is still to own your home.
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The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you.
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You will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal, there really is only one, and that is this: to fulfill the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human being. You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you. Theologian Howard Thurman said it best. He said, “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
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If you take a candy bar in the short run, it gives you a burst of energy, but after a while, it just makes you fat.
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Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record.
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We are seekers of the truth, but we do not embody the truth. And in humility, we should recognize that the same can be said about our most ardent foes.
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Hold an image of the life you want, and that image will become fact.
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There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.
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The bite of conscience is indecent.
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I have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God.
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I don't want to be made to look like I'm 25. I'm 39. I don't have any issues with my age.
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To love is to will the good of the other.
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Sometimes you don't need lightning to start a fire. Sometimes, it builds on its own.
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I think it's the best thing I've ever done. I think it's realistic, and it's true to the me that has been developing over the years. I like first-person music.
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If you go to Canada or Los Angeles, you will get to see many South Asians there, but on screens, they are so less in number. It is abnormal not to have much South Asians on screens.
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As you read the Word of God today, read it with expectancy and anticipation for the changes it will make in you.
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The morning’s recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come.
