"In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to know that it will remain with you while life lasts?"

-- Katherine Mansfield

#Book Quotes #Joy Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.”
“Ever since I was a little kid, I've felt comfortable in a suit. It all started when my mom bought me a three-piece Pierre Cardin suit. I wore that thing everywhere. Eventually I realized I was going to be the kid who got beat up in school, but I kept wearing it.”
“The third group [of society] are those irresponsible and reckless ones having little regard for the consequences of their acts, or whose religious scruples prevent their exercising control over their numbers. Many of this group are diseased, feeble-minded, and are of the pauper element dependent upon the normal and fit members of society for their support. There is no doubt in the minds of all thinking people that the procreation of this group should be stopped.”
“When I was little and something awful was happening my Mama would tell me to close my eyes.She was tryin' to keep me from seeing her do drugs or other bad things. And then when she was finished or the bad things were over she'd say, â€œnow when I count to three, you open your eyes and the past is gone, the world is a good place,and it's all gonna be okay.”
“You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those years later, was still wanting me to be someone I wasn't.”

Source : Barbara Delinsky (2011). “Escape”, p.101, Anchor
“Since I was 15 years old, all I wanted was to find the guy I was going to marry.”

Source : "Fun Fearless Female of the Year: Ali Larter" by Molly Fahner, www.cosmopolitan.com. January 13, 2009.
“Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay.”

Source : Caroline Sheridan Norton (1859). “Poems”, p.11
“For, like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism. I believed in hard work and progress and action, but now, after first being 'for' society and then 'against' it, I assign myself no rank or any limit, and such an attitude is very much against the trend of the times. But my world has become one of infinite possibilities. What a phrase - still it's a good phrase and a good view of life, and a man shouldn't accept any other; that much I've learned underground. Until some gang succeeds in putting the world in a strait jacket, its definition is possibility.”

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