"I could do without sex. Don't really like it that much. If I could just feel complete."

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Frederic Raphael

#Fidelity Quotes

“... I am more of an ambler. I once overheard my old boss in Dublin describe me as very "hello trees, hello flowers." It was intended as an insult and it fulfilled its brief; I was insulted. I had little interest in greeting trees and flowers but nor did I treat life as a treadmill, on which it was vital to keep fleeing forward in order to avoid being sucked off the back and out of the game.”
“The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.”

Source : Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp
“Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.”
“People always think that happiness is a faraway thing â€¦ something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.”

Source : BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”
“Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit. But it's what you do at that moment that determines who you are.”
“Anger is a fuel. You need fuel to launch a rocket. But if all you have is fuel without any complex internal mechanism directing it, you don't have a rocket. You have a bomb”
“It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.”

Source : "Independent Lens: The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights". TV Series, 2013.
“Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.”

Source : Gillian Flynn (2009). “Dark Places: A Novel”, p.60, Broadway Books

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