"Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path to the kingdom of cruelty, or she may simply have confused lack of capital with heroism while searching for rescue without knowing from what."

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Source : Anne Roiphe (1999). “1185 Park Avenue”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

Anne Roiphe

#Pain Quotes #Confused Quotes #Love Is Quotes

“I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!”
“Have Tottenham closed the gap on Arsenal? Last time I checked they were still 4 miles and 11 titles away”
“If trees could speak they wouldn't”
“A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.”
“It is wonderful when God saves a drunkard which He sometimes does, but it is more wonderful still when God saves little children before they become drunkards, libertines, and degenerates.”
“There are few people who will make mistakes with fire after having once been burned.”
“Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angelsÂ—but alas! We see thee, like the patriarch, but in dreams, By the first step, dull slumbering on the earth.”
“I had never imagined myself, nor aspired to be, a member of a royal family. I wanted to be in the Peace Corps, not a princess!”

Source : "Her Majesty Queen Noor: Yogi & Devoted Warrior for Peace". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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