"The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool."

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Source : William McFee (1916). “Casuals of the Sea: The Voyage of a Soul”

William McFee

“I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence?”

Source : Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.15, Simon and Schuster
“If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.”
“Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of the world. If the last interfere with the first it should be entirely neglected. But if not, there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind than to see its own approbation seconded by the applause of the public.”
“I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.”
“I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny”
“On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature seems to have no hesitation in administering to her strong doses of pain, and she can do nothing but submit passively to the regimen prescribed. On the other hand, as regards sexual attraction, which is necessary for the act of impregnation, and as regards the erotic pleasures experienced during the act itself, the woman may be on an equal footing with the man.”
“It's like being at a theme park every time you go to a training session”
“We all have moments of weakness. Itâ€™s how we recover from them that really counts.”

Source : Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Blues”, p.372, Zebra Books

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