"Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life."

-- Andre Maurois

#Men Quotes #Vulnerable Quotes #Tempest Quotes

“Strive for a life well lived. Each one with their own aims, preferences, and meaning. Always, of course, without harming other persons or preventing others from being able to form a good life for themselves.”

Source : "Singer-Songwriter José González: Live and Let Live". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“A cute outfit can really make your day. If I wear something I look good in, my mood just goes way up.”

Source : "Jennette McCurdy and Ariana Grande on New Nick Comedy 'Sam & Cat'". Interview with Casey Lewis, www.teenvogue.com. May 29, 2013.
“All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have to change the character a little bit in case your friend or your relative reads the book, because you don't want them to know you wrote about them... They might get mad.”
“When we follow the reversal of normal experience, we find ourselves in an unusual, nearly mad experience. Being in an almost mad experience is not something we should fear: only in such experience are we jarred out of our common sense opinions and beliefs. It opens our minds to other ideas and thought. It makes us think.”
“I'm trying to find out what's actually true, which is nearly always something, if not a world of things, that you can't read in books.”
“There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and down-right ignorance.”
“Everything matters. Nothing's important.”
“The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank.”

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