"I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else."

-- Jodi Picoult

#Running Quotes #Fall Quotes #Eye Quotes

“In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.”

Source : Alain Badiou, Nicolas Truong (2012). “In Praise Of Love”, p.45, Profile Books
“In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face.”
“A good place to meet a man is at the dry cleaner. These men usually have jobs and bathe.”
“Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.”
“Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful.”
“Doing stand-up comedy is in the middle of a traffic jam getting everybody moving again.”
“I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool , I have been all by turns, Knowing the body's sweetness, the mind 's treason ; Taliesin still, I show you a new world , risen, Stubborn with beauty , out of the heart 's need .”

Source : "Song at the Year's Turning : Poems, 1942-1954" by R. S. Thomas". Book by R. S. Thomas, 1955.
“The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.”

Source : Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The House: Its Origins and Evolution”, Ivan R Dee

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