"My front door had seen jean skirts, dresses, even a see-through tube dress over a string bikini. A handful of times, spackled-on makeup and glitter lotion. Never pajamas."

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Source : Jamie McGuire (2013). “Walking Disaster: A Novel”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

Jamie McGuire

#Makeup Quotes #Doors Quotes #Dresses Quotes

“We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet.”
“I died in Auschwitz, but no one knows it”

Source : Charlotte Delbo, Rosette C. Lamont (1997). “Auschwitz and After”, p.267, Yale University Press
“I would ask the people who were generous toward my own work. After class one day a poetry professor said to me, "Hey, there's this guy Basho you would find interesting," and so I found Basho. A fiction teacher told me, "You ought to read Clarice Lispector if you're interested in that sort of in-between stuff," and then Lispector appeared. It's not magic. You just keep your eyes open.”
“The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!”
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”

Source : David Barsamian, Arundhati Roy (2004). “The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy : Interviews”, p.11, South End Press
“Only Americans can hurt America.”
“Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.”
“Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.”

Source : "Pat Summerall: Gridiron, God, and Graham". Interview with Andrew Knox, www.cbn.com.

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