Alex Shakar Professions : Novelist Born : 1968 Browse All Authors Top 8 quotes by Alex Shakar Nothing lasts forever. But—especially as it seems to me cities and humans are symbiotically and inextricably bound at this point—I hope cities have a good, long run. Plus, cities are beautiful creatures in their own right; and as with us, their vulnerability and ephemerality are part of that beauty. Alex Shakar cities running beautiful With the Internet, we can choose the very communities we want to be a part of. Alex Shakar internet community want Cats are there to be indulged. That's their function: to receive the love we never fully gave our parents. Not like dogs. Dogs are there to give us the love and devotion our children will never fully give us. Alex Shakar cat dog children Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind. Alex Shakar childhood age mind She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy. Alex Shakar empty deep-thought stupidity You need contradictions to make an ideal. Alex Shakar ideals contradiction needs From the beauty they deserve will come the love they deserve. And from the love will follow truth. Alex Shakar deserve That's the problem with relationships, It's a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act the same way all the time. Never to change. It's counter-evolutionary. How can anything new and good come into your life, if you're holding on to something that doesn't exist anymore? Alex Shakar holding-on problem way Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
