"It's such a liability to love another person."

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Source : Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.213, Hachette UK

Janet Fitch

#Liability Quotes #Persons Quotes

“I made the first 'Blumen' picture after looking at Robert Mapplethorpe's Pictures book. I was struck by how much freedom Mapplethorpe was able to extract from his model's restraint-that in tying up and cropping his models, he appears to be able to work with people as forms. I never thought about my flowers as related to his (which I saw as annoyingly erotic); I thought of them in relationship to bondage. I wanted to make the flowers more aggressive and ironic and less docile and sensual.”
“Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.”
“Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.”
“The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.”
“One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.”

Source : Judith Viorst (1987). “Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.”, Fireside
“If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.”
“The machine itself has begun to do the work of revolution. The State is now generating forces that will accomplish what no revolutionaries could accomplish by themselves.”
“I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.”

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