"She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight."

-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Writing Quotes #Weight Quotes #Spinsters Quotes

“In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.”
“You might win some, but you just lost one.”
“You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.”
“Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.”
“The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in which it has been evoked.”

Source : 'Artists on Art; from the 14th - 20th centuries', ed. by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, 1972, London, pp. 451, 1927.
“People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you've never met them or spent any time with them? So it's all based upon hearsay or things that they've read.”
“Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got”

Source : Song: Tell Him, Album: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
“There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved.”

Source : "The Quest for Human Origins". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.

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