"The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony."

-- John Cheever

#Rain Quotes #Taken Quotes #Light Quotes

“The president hasn't come after me yet, but we've had other people come after me!”
“Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that is a lens which opens reaches into the unknown, and reveals orbs which no telescope, however skilfully constructed, could do.”
“George W. Bush filled out his cabinet fairly quickly.”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
“It's important to excite the imagination of a woman.”
“I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy ... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks!”

Source : "Lilly Pulitzer, designer of trademark tropical dresses, dies aged 81", www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2013.
“Sex cannot be contained within a definition of physical pleasure, it cannot be understood as merely itself for it has stood for too long as a profound connection between human beings.”
“Us Asians look like we're twenty until we're fifty. Once we're fifty, we look like Yoda.”
“Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.”

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