"Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy."

-- Roald Dahl

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“If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.”
“Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.”

Source : Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”
“We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.”
“Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure. Then I get bitter: I am not loved enough to be supported. That I am not a burden has to compensate for the sad envy when I look at women loved enough to be supported. Even now China wraps double binds around my feet.”
“Theres something so grabbing about people who will do anything for one another.”

Source : "5 Questions w/ 'Shameless' Star Shanola Hampton". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. January 10, 2013.
“When it comes to such open-heart reflection, I'm a firm believer in the observer effect, which states that anything you try to observe is automatically changed by the mere fact that you're looking at it. The way I see it, if you try to study your emotions on a microscopic level, the best you can do is understand how it feels to hold the magnifying glass.”
“I cant write about something I dont admire. It goes back to the old concept of the celebration: you celebrate the hero, an idea.”

Source : Frank O'Connor, Michael A. Steinman (1994). “A Frank O'Connor Reader”, p.13, Syracuse University Press
“Be in this moment, and free yourself of striving for something more or someone else.”

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