"I realised that one might love him secretly with no hope of encouragement, which can be very enjoyable for the young or inexperienced."

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Source : Barbara Pym (2006). “Excellent Women”, p.73, Penguin

Barbara Pym

#Encouragement Quotes #Unrequited Love Quotes #Might Quotes

“I was on top of Keanu Reeves, he was on his back and I was on my trunk, and I was breathing down his neck for hours and hours. It was... very erotic.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Macroeconomic stability will be more elusive and that will affect all of our lives: from the risks many will face in childhood, to the security of employment at working age, to the challenge of accumulating for retirement. More financial instability will introduce more uncertainty all down the line, and that will be a very different world than the one we would have lived in only a couple of decades ago.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.”
“If there's anything Breaking 2: Electric Boogaloo has taught me, it's that breakdancing is the key to financial solvency.”
“Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.”
“Sure Man was born to meditate on things, And to contemplate the eternal springs Of God and Nature, glory, bliss and pleasure: That life and love might be his eternal treasure.”

Source : Thomas Traherne, Dick Davis (1980). “Selected writings of Thomas Traherne”, Carcanet Pr
“The patriots of 1776 had far more to fear from Benedict Arnold than they did King George. An enemy easily identified is much less formidable than one who marches in the uniform of an ally.”
“Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.”

Source : Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.25, Open Road Media

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