"Does Being Happy simply Create More Time, in the way that Being Sad, as we all know, slows time and thickens it, like cornstarch in a sauce?),"

-- Claire Messud

#Being Sad Quotes #Doe Quotes #Sauce Quotes

“Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.”
“Guys don't do that when they go out. Guys don't wear outfits that feature the dong.”
“I loved the audacity of that American principle which says. When life gets tainted or goes stale, junk it! Leave it behind! Go West!”
“The only answer that has any chance against against the information saturation kids face these days is to talk openly with kids, early enough and often enough and unflinchingly enough that you set the precedent of being the safe place they can go to ask their difficult questions. It has to happen starting when they're 2 or 3, and they ask you where babies come from and instead of freaking out and deflecting, you give facts commensurate with their ability to understand.”

Source : Source: live.washingtonpost.com
“I lean over you, your equal, offering you a mirror for your perfect nothingness, for your shadows which are neither light nor absence of light, for this void which contemplates. To all that which you are, and, for our language, are not, I add a consciousness. I make you experience your supreme identity as a relationship, I name you and define you. You become a delicious passivity.”
“Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.”

Source : Robert Southwell (1856). “The poetical works of the rev. Robert Southwell, now first completely ed. by W. B. Turnbull”, p.60
“ELANTRIS is a new BEN HUR for the fantasy genre, with a sweeping, epic storyline and closely personal characters.”
“I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward.”

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