"You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another's gestures."

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Source : Josephine Humphreys (2000). “Rich in Love”, p.97, Penguin

Josephine Humphreys

#Past Quotes #Gestures Quotes #Persons Quotes

“I like honesty and fair play.”
“Hot Cheetos! Ohhhhh! I used to crave them. I remember I used to eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I had to stop. I had to turn it around because it was getting addicting.”
“The rule of law should be respected so that the basic structure of our democracy is maintained and further strengthened.”
“It is rather an unpleasant fact, that the ugliest and awkwardest of brute animals have the greatest resemblance to man: the monkey and the bear. The monkey is ugly too (so we think) because he is like man--as the bear is awkward, because the cumbrous action of its huge paws seems to be a preposterous imitation of the motions of human hands. Men and apes are the only animals that have hairs on the under eye-lid. Let kings know this.”
“It's not the school, the curriculum, or the teacher, but motivation that is the single most important ingredient in learning.”
“My goal is to be accused of being strident.”
“Today we should make poems including iron and steel And the poet should know how to lead an attack.”
“When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.”

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