"Darwin speculated that â€œmusic tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all kinds are excited not only by love, but by strong passions of jealousy, rivalry, and triumphâ€ and that speech arose, secondarily, from this primal music."

-- Oliver Sacks

#Strong Quotes #Passion Quotes #Animal Quotes

“The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic, TV-ad-for-bath-oil way. Dakota Johnson, who plays the virgin English-literature major Anastasia Steele, and Jamie Dornan, who plays Christian Grey, the wildly rich and sexually particular business titan who wants Miss Steele in his playroom, are exceedingly attractive actors with enviably supple bodies well suited to nakedness. And really, under the circumstances, movable parts matter more than acting skills.”
“I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.”
“The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.”
“Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.”
“The doctors told me I'd be fine if I play only golf and tennis doubles for the rest of my life. But I dive. I dogsled. I trek. I guess I'll have surgery.”
“It doesn't ever occur to you, as you fashion your mask so carefully, that it will grow into your skin and graft itself, come to seem irremovable.”

Source : Claire Messud (2013). “The Woman Upstairs”, p.25, Vintage
“The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.”
“My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.”

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