"Everyone was talking about the gap between my teeth, my monocle, the fancy waistcoats I wore and the seven-inch cigarette holders I used"

-- Terry-Thomas

#Talking Quotes #Teeth Quotes #Fancy Quotes

“Traditionally, marriage involved a kind of bartering, rather than mutual inter-dependence or role sharing. Husbands financially and economically supported wives, while wives emotionally, psychologically and socially supported husbands. He brought home the bacon, she cooked it. He fixed the plumbing, she the psyche.”
“If it's a boy, I'll put him in tutus!”
“In the short stories - if I can make a very lumpy contrast - in the short stories I feel like the lives of the people have a kind of prior desperation and a prior need and my longing is for the story and their lives to somehow come together, even if not finally or forever, to face something; and it felt like a lot of the time with the essays I was wading into situations where there was an assumption of finality of understanding, and I felt like I could wade into any understood moment and tear it apart and make it fall apart.”

Source : Source: quarterlyconversation.com
“Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.”
“Being famous is just a job.”
“Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women”
“The Eucharist bathes the tormented soul in light and love. Then the soul appreciates these words, 'Come all you who are sick, I will restore your health.'”
“What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.”

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