"All happiness is a work of art: the smallest error falsifies it, the slightest hesitation alters it, the least heaviness spoils it, the slightest stupidity brutalizes it."

-- Marguerite Yourcenar

#Art Quotes #Errors Quotes #Stupidity Quotes

“It's as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you're living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.”
“It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.”

Source : "Exiled author Ma Jian banned from visiting China" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2011.
“Youth is always a little offended to find itself not preferred: it cannot help feeling that when it admits the old to its society, it confers a benefit.”
“You often see shocks in the League Cup, even when you donâ€™t expect them”
“I've never done a blind date but my parents met on a blind date.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Truly it it not the tragedies that destroy us, but the memories of them.”

Source : Christopher Pike (2012). “Thirst No. 2: Phantom, Evil Thirst, Creatures of Forever”, p.321, Simon and Schuster
“I don't even think when I'm walking down the runway. I don't really breathe either.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Maybe they notice me wincing whenever I hear them say it, but I don't know: there are all sorts of reasons I could be wincing. Life is a wince-a-thon.”

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