"These are things that only dogs and women understand because we tap into the pain directly, we connect to pain directly from its source, and so it is at once brilliant and brutal and clear, like white-hot metal spraying out of a fire hose, we can appreciate the aesthetic while taking the worst of it straight in the face. Men, on the other hand, are all filters and deflectors and timed release."

-- Garth Stein

#Dog Quotes #Pain Quotes #Men Quotes

“Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.”
“When the storm is over and night falls and the moon is out in all its glory and all you're left with is the rhythm of the sea, of the waves, you know what God intended for the human race, you know what paradise is.”

Source : Harold Pinter (1993). “Party Time ; And, The New World Order: Two Plays”, p.27, Grove Press
“Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.”
“There is never a deed so foul that something couldn't be said for the guy; that's why there are lawyers.”
“Just as I have insisted on his worth, he has always insisted on my strength, insisted that my capacity is greater than I believe. And I know, without being told, that's what love does, when it's right-it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be. This is right.”
“Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind”

Source : Max Eastman (1951). “Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology”
“If you hang around long enough, they think you're good. It's either my tenacity or my stupidity, I'm not sure which.”
“They showed each other that it was alright for their hearts to come out and play; that it was alright to feel close to someone; that love didn't always end in heartbreak.”

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