"I had a romantic, 'Aren't I a good girl?' take on divorce, but the truth is that was stupid."

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Source : "'Love Story' Actress Ali McGraw: I Should Have Sought Alimony". www.foxnews.com. January 06, 2012.

Ali MacGraw

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“To be more precise it was the color of heartache.”
“The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.”

Source : Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.155, Univ of California Press
“Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader”
“As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.”

Source : "Mapping the Nation". Book edited by Gopal Balakrishnan and Benedict Anderson, 1996.
“My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.”

Source : Hugh Howey (2013). “Wool”, p.22, Simon and Schuster
“Few people make a living as a public speaker but many people build it into their career. A career is like a suit of clothes: to look its best, it must be tailored and accessorized. So whatever career you choose, let's say it's social work - you can, for example, ask your boss - if you can give talks at housing project community centers about the social services available.”
“What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.”
“What does interest me is how difficult my culture seems to find it to look the dark side of life directly in the eye. It seems to me that if we look back at mediaeval culture, for example, we see a society which faces the reality of death and pain and limitation, because it has to. Our society, which is progressive and technological and seems to have a slightly fanatical utopian edge to it, gets very uncomfortable when anybody highlights the dark side of humanity, or the world we have built, or what we are doing to the rest of life on Earth.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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