"When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog."

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Source : Miles Franklin (1984). “The End of My Career”

Miles Franklin

#Real Quotes #Love Is Quotes #Play Quotes

“They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.”

Source : Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”
“In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock will hear the tune over a million times.”
“Listening better. Caring more. Being there. Its not big changes, but the little ones in our daily lives that make all the difference. With little ways to love more, big things happen”

Source : FaceBook post by Yehuda Berg from Oct 16, 2013
“Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.”
“Sometimes I draw with my left hand and I am pretty terrible. The drawings end up just looking like shakier/inconsistent (worse) versions of my right hand drawings. Sometimes I like drawing with my eyes closed.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the President had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone. It's a larger anthropological shift in my mind than even the tattoo age in the United States.”

Source : Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2012.
“[Science is] the literature of truth.”
“The passions often engender their contraries.”

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