"Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express."

-- Leo Ornstein

#Talking Quotes #Trying Quotes #Compromise Quotes

“I want to be independent. To meet interesting people. ... I just mean new people with clever things to say. Things I've never heard before. I want to be free. Open to whatever adventure comes along and sweeps me off my feet.”
“The era of Christianity peace, brotherhood, the Golden Rule as applied to governmental matters is. yet to come, and when it comes, then, and then only, will the future of nations be sure.”
“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”
“So end-to-end encryption, keeps things encrypted and that means that law enforcement, without a warrant, cannot read that information.”
“I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics.”
“By now, the camouflage had become my skin. My friends wouldn't want to know. Who would want to know? I certainly didn't want to know. All I wanted was to hold my assumptions to the light, and to watch them sparkle in their facets, as all sham gemstones do.”

Source : Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.101, Random House
“Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.”
“Unlike some people who have experienced the loss of an animal, I did not believe, even for a moment, that I would never get another. I did know full well that there were just too many animals out there in need of homes for me to take what I have always regarded as the self-indulgent road of saying the heartbreak of the loss of an animal was too much ever to want to go through with it again. To me, such an admission brought up the far more powerful admission that all the wonderful times you had with your animal were not worth the unhappiness at the end.”

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