„To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.“
— Oscar Wilde, Ein idealer Gatte
Lord Goring, Act III
Quelle: An Ideal Husband (1895)
„Somewhere along the line I had fallen in love with learning, and it became a lifelong romance.“
Quelle: Education of a Wandering Man (1989), Ch. 1
Kontext: A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.
My life may not be great to others, but to me it has been one of steady progression, never dull, often exciting, often hungry, tired, and lonely, but always learning. Somewhere back down the years I decided, or my nature decided for me, that I would be a teller of stories.
Decisions had to be made and there was nobody but me to make them. My course altered a number of times but never deviated from the destination I had decided upon. Whether this was altogether a matter of choice I do not know. Perhaps my early reading and the storytelling at home had preconditioned me for the role I adopted.
Somewhere along the line I had fallen in love with learning, and it became a lifelong romance. Early on I discovered it was fun to follow along the byways of history to find those treasures that await any searcher. It may be that all later decisions followed naturally from that first one.
One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.
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„Somewhere along the line I'd lost the will not to eat.“
— Meg Rosoff, buch How I Live Now
Quelle: How I Live Now
„Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.“
— Ben Fountain, buch Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Quelle: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
„Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.“
— Jay McInerney, buch Bright Lights, Big City
Quelle: Bright Lights, Big City
„Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness.“
— Dean Karnazes American distance runner 1962
Quelle: Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
— Harry Belafonte American singer 1927
As quoted in Democracy Now! interview by Amy Goodman (30 January 2006)
Kontext: I don’t think that we are a species or a people that can exist without making mistakes somewhere along the line. Some make mistakes that are greater than others. But I do believe that we should have the courage and the ability to look at something that we did, even if in the first instance we believed it, when in the wake of the aftermath and the truth, you find out that that was not the case, to then say, 'Let me go back and examine what led me to this conclusion. What gods was I serving? What masters was I serving? What was it all about?' and then try to be more instructive to people who will listen to you.
— A.R. Ammons American poet 1926 - 2001
Paris Review interview (1996)
Kontext: Somewhere along the line, I don’t know just when, it seems to me I was able to manage the multifariousness of things and the unity of things so much more easily than I ever had before. I saw a continuous movement between the highest aspects of unity and the multiplicity of things, and it seemed to function so beautifully that I felt I could turn to any subject matter and know how to deal with it. I would know that there would be isolated facts and perceptions, that it would be possible to arrange them into propositions, and that these propositions could be included under a higher category of things — so that at some point there might be an almost contentless unity at the top of that sort of hierarchy. I feel that you don’t have to know everything to be a master of knowing, but you learn these procedures and then you can turn them toward any subject matter and they come out about the same. I don’t know when I saw for myself the mechanism of how it worked for me. Perhaps it was when I stopped using the word salient so much and began to use the word wikt:suasion.
„Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.“
— Jay Samit American businessman 1961
Quelle: Disrupt You! (2015), p.64
„Love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals.“
— David Levithan, buch Letztendlich sind wir dem Universum egal
Variante: In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals.
Quelle: Every Day
„It started out as a light romance, but he became demanding and possessive.“
— Nastassja Kinski German actress 1961
On her relationship with Roman Polanski, as quoted in Cameron Docherty, Interview: Nastassja Kinski - Still a daddy's girl, The Independent, September 26, 1997
„A woman who had fallen out of love with her life“
— Jhumpa Lahiri, buch Interpreter of Maladies
Quelle: Interpreter of Maladies
„The world stopped. She was somewhere else, learning things she had no names for.“
— Sheri S. Tepper American fiction writer 1929 - 2016
Quelle: The Visitor (2002), Ch. 40 : at ogre's gap
Kontext: The world stopped. She was somewhere else, learning things she had no names for. She was being instructed. Nell was in abeyance. The mind she shared was full of those treasures she had always sought, the workings of the universe, the reasons and intentions of the galaxies. Time passed forever.
— Charlotte Salomon German painter 1917 - 1943
Quote, 1941-43; as cited in 'The obsessive art and great confession of Charlotte Salomon' https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-obsessive-art-and-great-confession-of-charlotte-salomon by Toni Bentley, in 'The New Yorker', 15 July, 2017
Charlotte wrote of the dead women in her family: her mother and grandmother; both committed suicide
