"When the pressures really mount, the neurotic must choose: Shall he have a good cry, or set fire to his neighbor's house?"

-- Mignon McLaughlin

#Fire Quotes #House Quotes #Pressure Quotes

“I remember the first time Dakota asked me for fashion advice about what to put with what. I was like, My big sister is asking me?”
“In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.”
“The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.”
“I am God, says Love, for Love is God and God is Love, and this Soul is God by the condition of Love. I am God by divine nature and this Soul is God by the condition of Love. Thus this precious beloved of mine is taught and guided by me, without herself, for she is transformed into me, and such a perfect one, says Love, takes my nourishment.”

Source : Marguerite Porete, Ellen L. Babinsky (1993). “The Mirror of Simple Souls”, p.104, Paulist Press
“I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.”
“But a lot of my training can be done in Aston - a lot of the hard work, so to speak. But a new atmosphere, a new place, and it's good for me because I didn't want to get stuck in one spot, so coming home is good, back and forth, you know, where my roots are.”
“Somebody who sticks to his guns can be called a stubborn person or a principled person, it depends on whether you like his ideas or not. You can call somebody whose ideas you don't like an ideologist or a person of ideas. You can call somebody whose actions you don't like a pragmatist if you like them, or an opportunist if you don't.”
“It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love.”

Source : Zoë Akins (1923). “Déclassée: Daddy's gone a-hunting; and Greatness - a comedy ...”

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