"I mean, we have to read books or we'll make mistakes. If we read stories of how other people lived, we can figure out better ways to live. I mean we can look at other people's lives and not make the same mistakes they made. Or we can, like, use their examples as models for ourselves."

-- Rachel DeWoskin

#Mistake Quotes #Book Quotes #Mean Quotes

“There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers.”
“What does everybody want? HEAD!”
“Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled sky listening to frogs and crickets. Darkness soothed. It softened the sharp edges of the world, toned down the too-harsh colors. With the coming of twilight, the sky seemed to recede; the universe expanded. The night was bigger than the day, and in its realm, life seemed to have more possibilities.”
“When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.”

Source : Robert Mapplethorpe, Edmund White (1995). “Altars”, Vintage
“I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.”
“Sports became a favorite subject of reflection and will soon be the only way of thinking”
“L'alcool est le monarque des liquides, et porte au dernier degreÂ Â l'exaltation palatale. Alcohol is the prince of liquids, and carries the palate to its highest pitch of exaltation.”
“There are no golden geese. There are only fat geese eating the food that could nourish more athletic opportunities for women.”

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