"Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves."

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Annie Dillard

#Moving Quotes #Men Quotes #Boyhood Quotes

“What would tomorrow bring? I wondered. Both hands on the wheel, I closed my eyes. I didnâ€™t feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing. What would become of me tomorrow I did not know.”
“Perserverance. . .that's been the story of my family.”
“Although a biologist, I must confess I do not understand how life came about...Â I consider that life only starts at the level of a functional cell. The most primitive cells may require at least several hundred different specific biological macro-molecules. How such already quite complex structures may have come together, remains a mystery to me. The possibility of the existence of a Creator, of God, represents to me a satisfactory solution to this problem.”
“A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.”

Source : John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.24, Cambridge University Press
“"He Stopped Loving Her Today" a fascinating book about the making of a record. Really, to be honest, it has some of the best George Jones anecdotes I've ever read, like cocaine psychosis causing this personality called "the Duck."”

Source : "Indie author Scott McClanahan considers art and anecdote through 5 of his favorite books". Interview with Phil McCausland, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.
“I just write what comes to me. I didn't sit down and say ok, here is my statement. It's just a song that has a shout out.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It's a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them--and they simply don't need you. That's all there is to it, and neither of you can do anything about it. And they'll be the same way with someone else, and someone else will be the same way about you and it goes on and on--this desperate need--and only once in a rare million do the same two people need each other.”
“I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.”

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