"Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better."

-- E. M. Forster

#Romance Quotes #Pairs Quotes #Unexpected Quotes

“There was something stubborn in me that didn't want to lose weight to attract a man. If the right man came along, he'd be able to see my virtues magically. Once he kissed me, the frog would turn into a prince. I had become a trick question, a heavy disguise, but behind the disobliging exterior was the welcoming child I would always be. Of course, what I'd forgotten was that he was not Parsifal and I was not the Grail; the medievalism of my imagination was not sufficiently up-to-date to recognize that the lover was a shopper and I a product.”
“Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.”
“Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.”
“All great changes are preceded by chaos.”
“The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.”
“Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.”
“Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.”
“Colonization was the idea that once slavery ended African-Americans should be encouraged - or required, in some people's view - required to leave the country. It's part of an attitude toward the abolition of slavery which says America should not be a slave society, but it can never be a multiracial society. You can never have free black and white people living together.”

Source : "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

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