"Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third."

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Source : Marge Piercy (2016). “Gone to Soldiers: A Novel”, p.685, Open Road Media

Marge Piercy

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“At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.”
“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road-the one "less traveled by"-offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.”

Source : "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson, (p. 277), 1962.
“Just because you think the path that's right for you might be lonelier, longer or less destined for traditional success than paths taken by others, don't be afraid to take it. If you choose your means well you will end up in the right place.”
“Men want girls. Most men want little girls. They want them in film. They want to look at them. That's all they want. An evolved man is not going to look that way.”
“Blues ain’t football. You don’t have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.”
“I find it very invigorating having Ken Lonergan, who's an established, Pulitzer-nominated playwright doing Howards End, or Chris Hampton who's won an Oscar writing a TV series, or having an actor like Mark Rylance, who is probably England's leading theater actor, in the lead in Wolf Hall.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“Like your weight set-point, which keeps the scale hovering around the same number, your happiness set-point will remain the same unless you make a concerted effort to change it.”
“Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.”

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