"You need to be able to express your resentment and sense of loss in a way that doesn't damage your partner."

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Mallory Ortberg

#Loss Quotes #Needs Quotes #Able Quotes

“If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But I didn't so I slapped it up on the Web.”

Source : Slashdot interview, tech.slashdot.org. April 27, 2000.
“I'm really just doing whatever comes my way and trying to stay busy and get better at what I'm doing.”
“I wrote an album about being in love. I don't think it's possible to write an album while you're in love - why on earth would you bother? I mean, Christ. If you're in there writing songs about someone rather than just being with them and kissing their every molecule, surely the person that you're with must be asking some questions as well.”
“London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie.”
“We pass now quickly from each other's sight; but I know full well that where beyond these passing scenes you shall be, there will be Heaven.”

Source : Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1998). “The Passing of the Armies: An Account of the Final Campaign of the Army of the Potomac, Based Upon Personal Reminiscences of the Fifth Army Corps”, p.342, U of Nebraska Press
“A man could get used to anything if he had to.”
“35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.”
“But this road doesn't go anywhere,â€ I told him. â€œThat doesn't matter.â€ â€œWhat does?â€ I asked, after a little while. â€œJust that we're on it, dude,â€ he said.”

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