"A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark."

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Source : Frances O'Roark Dowell (2013). “The Secret Language of Girls”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

Frances O'Roark Dowell

#Relationship Quotes #Dark Quotes #Faces Quotes

“Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive.”
“Until he has unconditional and unbiased love for all beings, man will not find peace.”
“The more kilos you have to move around, the more it weighs on your knees. Then of course in terms of stamina, the way you move around, it's a little extra. It might not be much, but when you exercise with two, three extra kilos, you can feel a difference; it's important.”
“I certainly think one of the really amazing things about Mr. Trump's victory is there's been an immediate - what one of my friends calls a jump-to-the-Trump in Australia. So you've got politicians of all sides looking at this amazing result in America and thinking, I'd like a bit of that. Can I have a bit of that? And so the opposition leader has been talking about immigrants stealing people's jobs. The prime minister has started talking about media elites in exactly the same terms as President-elect Trump.”

Source : "Non-Politicians Talking Politics: Australian Radio Host Richard Glover". "Weekend Edition Saturday", www.npr.org. November 26, 2016.
“Whatever hath been written shall remain, Nor be erased nor written o'er again; The unwritten only still belongs to thee: Take heed, and ponder well what that shall be.”
“We tell our children they're trapped like rats on a doomed, bankrupt, gangster-haunted planet with dwindling resources, with nothing to look forward to but rising sea levels and imminent mass extinctions, then raise a disapproving eyebrow when, in response, they dress in black, cut themselves with razors, starve themselves, gorge themselves, or kill one another.”
“[D]ifferent people have different quotational gravity.”
“Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.”

Source : Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis (1989). “The Little Virtues”, p.72, Arcade Publishing

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