"The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed."

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Source : Alice McDermott (2013). “Someone”, p.153, A&C Black

Alice McDermott

#World Quotes #Language Quotes #Vulgar Quotes

“Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.”
“There are people who are like monkeys in a cage just hitting the coke button. They don't really get that for [musicians and artists] to do these things, they have to fund them. They have to have something to pay the rent.”
“Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire.”

Source : Henry Purcell, Nahum Tate (1978). “Purcell, Didon et Enée”
“I feel like Im too old to just have sex. I mean, I want to have sex, but with somebody who really loves me.”
“High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.”
“The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.”
“A woman reasons by telegraph, and his [a man's] stage-coach reasoning cannot keep pace with hers.”
“There are some particular moral truths that I believe we have access to (such as the one not to inflict pain on a sentient being for no reason).”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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