"Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free."

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Samuel Johnson

#Writing Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Lovers Quotes

“And much more am I sorrier for my good knights' loss than for the loss of my fair queen; for queens I might have enough, but such a fellowship of good knights shall never be together in no company.”

Source : Thomas Malory (1998). “Le Morte Darthur : The Winchester Manuscript”, p.481, Oxford Paperbacks
“I've been wrestling for 15 years so my body hurts.”

Source : Source: ftw.usatoday.com
“We need writers, we need to tell stories that include minority people, and then we won't have this discussion about Oscar so white.”
“When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.”
“The road is more important than the goal.”

Source : "Missed Opportunities". Interview with Marc Masters and Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. March 19, 2010.
“Churches typically argue is that God wants God's people to have a good life, and that a good life involves prosperity. This prosperity is not just emotional well-being, spiritual well-being, or physical well-being - it's also having good stuff. Having a nice house, a nice car, good clothing, etc. It's a package deal.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“...bleak territory of the heart.”
“I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa, unseen and denied by the imperialist looters of Africa's material wealth.”

Source : Paul Robeson (1998). “Here I Stand”, p.35, Beacon Press

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