"We turned onto the last landing. Going out with this guy, I thought, would involve a lot of silly laughter, some wit--the buzz of his whispered wisecracks in my ear. But there would be as well his willingness to reveal, or more his inability to conceal, that he had been silently rehearsing my name as he climbed the stairs behind me. There would be his willingness to bestow upon me the power to reassure him. He would trust me with his happiness."

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Source : Alice McDermott (2013). “Someone”, p.163, A&C Black

Alice McDermott

#Laughter Quotes #Silly Quotes #Names Quotes

“It's so much easier for me to get up and be someone else than expressing my own thoughts and feelings.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“As you climb, you grow deeper in the foundation, so it makes our foundation deeper.”
“I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away.”
“Priorities are the yearly goals that I'm most interested in achieving, then they become operationalized through weekly goals.”
“I've come to realize that the difference in success or failure is not how you look, how you dress, or how you're educated. It's how you think !”
“Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.”

Source : Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.127, University of Michigan Press
“I use game theory to help myself understand conflict situations and opportunities.”

Source : "American, Israeli Share Nobel Prize in Economics". www.foxnews.com. October 10, 2005.
“Veni, vidi, visa - I came, I saw, I charged it.”

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