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Quote by Jeff Bridges

“Normally, we push away the things we're scared of.”

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Jeff Bridges is a renowned American actor, born on December 4, 1949. Known for his versatile acting style and extensive filmography, he has won the Academy Award for Best Actor. more

“You were ambitious - for your life, what it was like when you woke up in the morning, and not for some attainment. Like most people who did not answer a particular calling from an early age, you placed work beside yourself; any occupation would fill up your day but not your heart. I liked that about you. I liked it enormously.”

People Heart Age Answers Morning Particular Calling Occupation Ambitious Attainment

Book:We Need To Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin

“I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.”

Knowing Proud Ego Humble Not Knowing Modest Knowing Something

Book:Lolita

Source: Lolita

“Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt. The more Esther loved her parents, the more helpless she felt, as they aged, to protect them from harm. A moral coward, she kept her distance.”

Felt Parent Moral Duty Protect Distance Guilt Painful Harm Former Coward Helpless Oxygen Hometown Pilgrimage Esther

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“The first night Stephen and I slept together, he whispered numbers into my ear: long, high numbers -- distances between planets, seconds in a life. He spoke as if they were poetry, and they became poetry. Later, when he fell asleep, I leaned over him and watched, trying to picture a mathematician's dreams. I concluded that Stephen must dream in abstract, cool designs like Mondrian paintings.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Long Dream Together Night Numbers Design Painting Planets Ears Distance Abstract Spokes Seconds Mathematician

Book:One Way or Another: Stories

Source: One Way or Another: Stories

“It's time to float on the waters of the night. Time to wrap my arms around this book and press it to my chest, life preserver in a seat of unremarkable men and women anonymous faces on the street, a hundred thousand unalphabitized things a million forgotten hours.”

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Author:Billy Collins

“I can't catch her by copying her, I can't draw her with a borrowed stencil. She is all the things a lover should be and quite a few a lover should not. Pin her down? She's not a butterfly. I'm not a wrestler. She's not a target. I'm not a gun. Tell you what she is? She's not Lot no. 27 and I'm not one to brag.”

Should I Can Lovers Draws Gun Target Butterfly Pins Borrowed Copying Brag Wrestler

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Was there only one world after all which spent its time dreaming of others?”

World Dream

Book:The subtle knife

Source: The subtle knife

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