"The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them...."

-- Agatha Christie

#Girl Quotes #Men Quotes #Missing Quotes

“There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope.”
“Do we regard language as more public, more ceremonial, than thought? Just as family men condemn the profanity on the stage that they use constantly in conversation, in the same way we may look to written language as an idealization rather than a reflection of ourselves.”

Source : Edmund White (2014). “States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America”, p.284, University of Wisconsin Pres
“The commitment to love always transforms, heals, and opens new avenues of creativity.”
“I do a lot of swimming, both in the ocean and in the pool.”
“Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.”
“Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.”
“I think our lives are surely but the dreams Of spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres, Who as we die, do one by one awake.”

Source : Edgar Saltus (1906). “Vanity Square: A Story of Fifth Avenue Life”
“You know what the difference between a cardiac surgeon and God is? God doesn't think he's a cardiac surgeon.”

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