"When we get jealous, we tell stories to ourselves about other people. Jealousy makes you look for intensity rather than accuracy."

-- Parul Sehgal

#Jealous Quotes #People Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Tell it to the cleaning lady on Monday. Because you'll be dust on Monday. Because I'll be pulverizing you sometime over the weekend. And the cleaning lady... cleans up... dust. She dusts. And she has weekends off, so... Monday. Right?”
“In the real world, I see conservatives volunteering at adoption agencies, at churches, at bake sales and the local American Legion Post while the only charity a progressive sends is a smug sermon on fair share and what fairness is.”
“You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid”
“A man is nothing but breath and shadow.”
“Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.”
“It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.”

Source : "Readers recommend: chicken-and-egg songs" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. April 02, 2015.
“Addiction is a revolt of the soul.”
“With my union project in my hand, from town to town, from one end of France to the other, to talk to the workers who do not know how to read and to those who do not have the time to read....I will go find them in their workshops; in their garrets and even, if needed, in their taverns, and there, face to face with their poverty, I will compel them, in spite of themselves, to escape from this frightful poverty which is degrading and killing them.”

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