"It was a standard fantasy when you fell in love to imagine you could go back in time and find your beloved growing up, appear there, save him or her, get together as adolescents, by magic, and go on together, fighting for one another, into old age, never wavering."

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Source : Norman Rush (2013). “Subtle Bodies”, p.11, Granta Books

Norman Rush

#Growing Up Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Magic Quotes

“It's tough. Gymnastics isn't basketball or football or baseball, where you can get these huge contracts and make a lot of money.”

Source : Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com. July 31, 2012.
“My hairstylist taught me a trick for my hair. You section off your hair and put them up in these crazy little knots and then it looks like you curled your hair. It's saved me so much time 'cause on the road you don't have time or plugs to plug your curling iron in.”
“Trust is probably the intangible, and cultivated of all characteristic.”
“There needs to be a lot more emphasis on what a child CAN do, instead of what he cannot do.”
“In a huge way, everything that I've done in my life has helped inform my ability to communicate with actors and direct them.”
“Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.”

Source : "The White House: Just Call Me the Anniversary President". www.cnn.com.
“It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for,they do not feel like fighting.”
“Presented memorial to [Constitutional Convention] committee on sufferage. Was very courteously treated. We all felt it a great day in the history of Utah. The committee informed us they had passed on W[oman] S[uffrage] being ten to five in favor.”

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