"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats..."

-- Maya Angelou

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“You,â€ she murmured, using both hands to undo his belt, â€œare the sexiest man I have ever met.â€ He made her think bad thoughts simply by breathing.”
“[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. "What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.”
“Nobody was perfect. Not even close. And everybody had wrinkles from smiling and squinting and craining their necks. Everybody has marks on their bodies from years of living- a trail of life left on them. Evidence of all the adventures and sleepless nights and practical jokes and heartbreaks that had made them who they are.”
“The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights completely out, to some popular music on the radio. I put the radio on full blast and I started moving. I didn't know what it looked like. I didn't want to see it... I had to start in the dark.”

Source : Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books
“As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who are waiting for them and reach them at the right moment. They are made of living material and continue to cast light through the darkness long after the death of their authors.”

Source : Miguel Serrano (1997). “C.G. Jung and Hermann Hesse: A Record of Two Friendships”, p.14, Daimon
“All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.”

Source : Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.”
“I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.”

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