"Tell me, if you thought a man had a tendresse for you, but he wasn't doing anything about it. And you wanted to hurry him up a little so you made a move, an unmistakable move; one that nobody could pretend had been a misunderstanding. And he - he ignored it - ignored you. What would you feel?"

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Source : Ahdaf Soueif (2012). “I Think of You”, p.124, Bloomsbury Publishing

Ahdaf Soueif

#Moving Quotes #Men Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.”
“The philosopher says--I am, and the church scouts his philosophy. She answers:--No! you are NOT, you have no existence of your own. You were and are and ever will be only a part of the supreme I AM, of which the church is the emblem.”
“You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions.”
“Dance in the fullness of time.”

Source : Ellen Gilchrist (2010). “The Writing Life”, p.38, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count. We are still the illegal aliens of the literary world.”
“I think that Brad Pitt is definitely a hottie. And his acting is so great that it makes him even more sexy.”
“My being subsists only from a supreme point of view which is precisely incompatible with my point of view. The perspective in which I fade away for my eyes restores me as a complete image for the unreal eye to which I deny all images. A complete image with reference to a world devoid of image which imagines me in the absence of any imaginable figure. The being of a nonbeing of which I am the infinitely small negation which it instigates as its profound harmony. In the night shall I become the universe?”
“Somedays you eat the bear, somedays the bear eats you”

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