"the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old."

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Source : Mary Lee Settle (1954). “The Love Eaters”

Mary Lee Settle

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“You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.”
“A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don't have those, you don't have love.”
“Nostalgias were peeled from it long ago.”

Source : Donald Justice (2009). “Collected Poems”, p.160, Knopf
“If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point.”
“Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins.”
“To call the American role in the world imperial was, for many who did so, a way of asserting that the United States was misusing its power beyond its borders and, in so doing, subverting its founding political principles within them.”

Source : Michael Mandelbaum (2009). “The Case for Goliath: How America Acts As the World's Government in the Twenty-First Century”, p.4, PublicAffairs
“We will not return No one must leave here and so carry to the world, together with the sign impressed on his skin, the evil tidings of what man's presumption made of man in Auschwitz”
“Partly why I love to operate is that I love to watch an actor within a shot. When you watch a shot, and you know that everything's come together, I feel I'm the first person watching it. I always get pleasure out of that.”

Source : Interview with Jeff Bridges, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 6, 2015.

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