"Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity latent in every decision. However grave the matter at hand might be, if one neglected it for long enough, the act of neglect itself would begin to affect the situation, and someone else would emerge as an ally. Such was Count Ayakura's version of political theory."

-- Yukio Mishima

#Sweet Quotes #Hands Quotes #Long Quotes

“The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs.”
“And if one day,' she said, really crying now, 'you look back and you feel bad for being so angry, if you feel bad for being so angry at me that you couldn't even speak to me, then you have to know, Conor, you have to that is was okay. It was okay. That I knew. I know, okay? I know everything you need to tell me without you having to say it out loud.”
“Not everybody is comfortable with my ethnicity. When I first came along in the business, they didnt really like the idea of my name being Raquel.”

Source : "The MH Interview: Raquel Welch". Interview with Eric Sputznagel, www.menshealth.com. March 8, 2012.
“Do we regard language as more public, more ceremonial, than thought? Just as family men condemn the profanity on the stage that they use constantly in conversation, in the same way we may look to written language as an idealization rather than a reflection of ourselves.”

Source : Edmund White (2014). “States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America”, p.284, University of Wisconsin Pres
“When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor.”
“Every child grows; everything depends on the teacher.”
“Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.”
“Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.”

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