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Jane Green

"I do what most women do. I meet someone and some of it's right, maybe he looks right, or has the right job, or the right background, and, instead of sitting back and waiting for him to reveal his other bits, I make them up. I decide how he thinks, how he's going to treat me, and, sure enough, every time I conclude that this time he's definitely my perfect man, and all of a sudden, well, not so suddenly perhaps, usually around six months after we've split up, I see that he wasn't the person I thought he was at all."

Source : Jane Green (2001). “Mr. Maybe”, p.18, Broadway Books

Jane Green

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“We shouldn't be so dependent on foreign oil.”
“Underground comics were produced by individuals - they were the auteur variety, rather than the production-line sort of comic book aimed at pleasing a vast general audience. Mainstream comics never appealed to me: they seemed sterile in their stylistic consistency, and were quickly consumed, the stories interesting only for so long as you were reading them.”
“Are you okay?' she asked me. Of course,' I said. 'Why wouldn't I be okay?' There are lots of reasons why you might not be okay.' There are lots of reasons why anyone might not be okay,' I said.”

Source : Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.87, Macmillan
“Monastic vows rest on the false assumption that there is a special calling, a vocation, to which superior Christians are invited to observe the counsels of perfection while ordinary Christians fulfill only the commands; but there simply is no special religious vocation since the call of God comes to each at the common tasks.”
“Well, I'm telling them two things. One is that, look, this is going to be something when the American people realize - once it's passed - that, A, it does take care of preexisting conditions; B, you're insurance rates aren't going to skyrocket; C, the insurance companies aren't going to be running the show like they were before; D, you're going to be in a position where you can keep your insurance that you have. That once the American public realizes that, you're going to get a reward for this. They're going to be rewarded.”
“I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.”
“... every entity loses perfection as long as it is not fulfilling its purpose.”

Source : Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, Moshe Ḥayyim Luzzatto (1997). “דרך ה׳”, p.57, Feldheim Publishers
“Be yourself. Unapologetically.”

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