"The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Ignorant Quotes #Way Quotes #Shame Quotes

“In Denmark lots of people come up to me for autographs.”
“Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And if you feel the strain, you may be doing some good work.”
“For David Halberstam journalism was a calling, not a job. You couldn't fire him and he wouldn't quit.”

Source : "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.
“A skirt is no obstacle to extemperaneous sex, but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is wearing trousers.”

Source : Helen Lawrenson (1968). “Latins are Still Lousy Lovers”
“This is our problem, our dilemma, yes? We cannot celebrate and declare ourselves to belong to the victorious nations because our brothers and our fathers and grandfathers died in this battle [in Normandy], yes. I understand that the Americans and the British and French celebrate one of the greatest and most important military victories in history. And I understand this. I don't see a reasonable place for the Germans. We watch everything on the television with compassion and sympathy.”
“There's so many good books, but I'm always like, "I'm sorry, I have five more Faulkners to read, I can't be bothered." Most of the time when you try, you fall on the wrong one.”
“I didn't intentionally emplace the raw material needed for political/allegorical readings into any of the first drafts, but sooner or later I saw it coming, and I did intentionally not cut it from some of the final drafts. In other words, I'm not particularly interested in encouraging readers to read certain stories that way, but I want to make sure that route's accessible should anyone be so inclined.”
“The ultimate goal of all goals is to be happy. If you want to be happy make someone else happy.”

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