"Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are."

-- AndrÃ© Aciman

#Firsts Quotes #Lovers Quotes

“Occasionally, I like to select a mentor, a master, and let him guide me through a revision of one of my paintings... I try to move into his terrain, bringing my own ammunition... I do not believe... that this belittles my own personality.”
“We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.”
“Maybe the '50s and '60s were more awkward because everyone knew there were things under the surface, but no one talked about them.”
“TV taste is an aftertaste. Whatever gets on the tube is always a foregone conclusion, a fait accompli. That is, any new ideas or social changes have already been fought for in the real world of the streets, or in the bedroom or even the law courts long before they reach the screen. By the time you see it on prime time, it's usually all over and done with, whatever it was. Television by definition is not avant garde. It is often reactionary and always sentimental.”
“Death teaches us to live; it gives us a boundary to map our living within. Death's hammer breaks through the mirror separating us from light.”
“There is no love that rewards with more consistency and provides lifelong passion as the love one has for the world.”
“Some male gamers with a deep sense of entitlement are terrified of change.”

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“The time will come when a spacecraft carrying human beings will leave the earth and set out on a voyage to distant planets - to remote worlds. Today this may seem only an enticing fantasy, but such in fact is not the case. The launching of the first two Soviet Sputniks has already thrown a sturdy bridge from the earth into space, and the way to the stars is open”

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