335 Quotes About Place

  • Author Judy Van Der Veer
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    Life, she felt, is like a long unbroken line when one dies in the same place in which he was born. Childhood doesn't seem long ago when every day a man sees the same things he saw the first time he began to look around. Then there can't seem such a sharp division between youth and age. A person would grow into his years like a tree.

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  • Author Kim Gordon
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    But no place gives you everything. I'm equally mistrustful of the energy bursts New York gives you, which fragment and exhaust you. Living there gives you a phony sense of self-importance and confidence. If you're at all anxious, the city acts out your anxiety for you, leaving you feeling strangely peaceful.

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  • Author David Mitchell
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    Birth deals us out a hand of cards, but as important as their value is the place we are dealt them in.

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  • Author David Mitchell
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    The double-crossed, might-have-been history of my country is not the study of what actually took place here: it's the study of historians' studies. . . .Memories are their own descendants masquerading as the ancestors of the present.

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  • Author Marcelle Hinkson
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    The loneliest place that one could ever find oneself is in a place of not being comfortable in one's own skin

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