"Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse."

-- Edna Ferber

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“Yeah, we've become really good friends. Our characters start dating in the book, and um, yeah, I think we - and we made up little back stories to our characters and little outtakes that we'd bring up to Edgar as a joke, and you know, kind of see different sides of stuff. So yeah, we have a really good time.”

Source : "Johnny Simmons On Set Interview SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD - Read or Listen Here". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. May 25, 2010.
“I tell my retreat students that they need to remember two things: to eat what they want when they're hungry and to feel what they feel when they're not.”

Source : Geneen Roth (2010). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.88, Simon and Schuster
“Historically the customs and traditions of day-to-day life in Africa have been dismissed by Western cultural anthropologists as primitive, chaotic, pagan activities that should be replaced by Christianity, the only civilized religion. The West has also long assumed that it should convert tribal cultures to literacy, which is to say an entirely different way of looking at the world, of living in the world. Most Africans who have achieved a comfortable Western lifestyle are Christian. Why? Because it comes with the package: Christian-ity, literacy, and a material lifestyle all come together.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Breastfeeding is an unsentimental metaphor for how love works, in a way. You donâ€™t decide how much and how deeply to love - you respond to the beloved, and give with joy exactly as much as they want.”
“If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person.”
“Once a fight has started, if you get involved in thinking about what to do, you will be cut down by your opponent with the very next blow.”

Source : "A Hereditary Book on the Art of War". Book by Yagyu Munenori, 1632.
“But let me have silence always, in the centre of the shoutingâ€”that is essential! Let me have silence so that no pin may drop and not be heard, and not a whisper escape us for all our spouting, nor the needle's scratching upon this gramophone of a circular cosmic spot. Hear me! Mark me! Learn me! Throw the mind's ear openâ€”shut up the mind's eyeâ€”all will be music!”
“Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?”

Source : Song: The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald

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