"Starlets were always turning up dead in people's pools. They fished them out like goldfish. Nobody seemed to find it unusual that so many young, beautiful women wanted to die."

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Source : Jonathan Rosen (2010). “Eve's Apple: A Novel”, p.72, Macmillan

Jonathan Rosen

#Beautiful Quotes #People Quotes #Goldfish Quotes

“Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.”
“Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people.”
“Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one of the purest examples of socialism existing in America.”
“Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.”
“I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.”
“Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.”

Source : Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.257, Simon and Schuster
“Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them. Especially if the picture is very beautiful or very sexy or just really weird, if it has some surreal element in it.”
“When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.”

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