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  • We do not remember days, we remember moments.

    Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.172, Transaction Publishers
  • Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

  • If Mother Culture were to give an account of human history using these terms, it would go something like this: ' The Leavers were chapter one of human history -- a long and uneventful chapter. Their chapter of human history ended about ten thousand years ago with the birth of agriculture in the Near East. This event marked the beginning of chapter two, the chapter of the Takers. It's true there are still Leavers living in the world, but these are anachronisms, fossils -- people living in the past, people who just don't realize that their chapter of human history is over. '

    Mother   Past   Two  
    Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.42, Bantam
  • It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.

    School   Safety   Green  
  • The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison.

    Race   World   Prison  
  • In a relationship, it is better to be the leaver than the leavee.

    Leavers  
    Everyone Says I Love You, www.imdb.com. 1996.
  • Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what precious gifts they would ever get.

    Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.221, Random House
  • There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

  • When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver.

    Heart   Half   Sides  
    "Pulitzer Prize-Winner Sharon Olds Talks Poetry, Divorce" By Brittany Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2013.
  • Harry taught me that death isn't the end, it's the beginning.

    "Dexter: Popping Cherry". TV series, 2006.
  • Openness isn't the end. It's the beginning.

    "Dare to disagree". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2012.
  • We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

    Fire   House   Looks  
    Tennessee Williams (1971). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. Kingdom of Earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. The two-character play”, p.107, New Directions Publishing
  • The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.

    Men   Stories   World  
    Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.239, Bantam
  • Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

  • Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

  • We have to ensure that our immigration system works in the interests of Britain, enabling us to make a realistic promise to our young school-leavers. It is part of our contract with the British people.

    School   People   Promise  
    "Iain Duncan Smith appeals to businesses to employ young Britons" by Adam Gabbatt, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2011.
  • And every time the Takers stamp out a Leaver culture, a wisdom ultimately tested since the birth of mankind disappears from the world beyond recall.

    Culture   World   Birth  
    Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.206, Bantam
  • The grand highway is crowded w/lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness.

    Jim Morrison (1989). “Wilderness”, Vintage
  • It just seemed to me so utterly wrong to credit someone's work just for the fact that this someone migrated from one place to another. We all move. We are all leavers and new beginners at some point, and yes, it is a huge leap from war to peace, from one language to another, from Boston, MA to Joplin, MO.

    War   Moving   Boston  
    "The Rumpus International Rivers Interview #3: Sasa Stanisic On The Danube". Interview with Michael Zelenko, therumpus.net. January 25, 2010.
  • Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to early twenties, a stretch of life that needed a name, from school leaver to salaried professional, with a university and affairs and death and choices in between. I had forgotten how recent my childhood was, how long and inescapable it once seemed. How grown up and how unchanged I was.

    School   Years   Names  
  • I once read somewhere that Sean Connery left school at the age of 13 and later went on to read Proust and Finnegans Wake and I keep expecting to meet an enthusiastic school leaver on the train, the type of person who only ever reads something because it is marvellous (and so hated school). Unfortunately the enthusiastic school leavers are all minding their own business.

    School   Age   Proust  
    Helen DeWitt (2016). “The Last Samurai”, p.61, New Directions Publishing
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