"A person could last a long while without touch, but once someone had experienced the comfort, joy, and sheer relief of another human body close, the desire to experience that again was hard to deny."

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Source : Mary Johnson (2011). “An Unquenchable Thirst: A Memoir”, p.478, Spiegel & Grau

Mary Johnson

#Long Quotes #Joy Quotes #Desire Quotes

“I have control of my own style.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.”

Source : Finley Peter Dunne (1963). “Mr. Dooley on Ivryting and Ivrybody”, Dover Publications
“For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy.”

Source : Selma Lagerlöf (1975). “Memories of my childhood: further years at Mårbacka”, Kraus Reprint. Co.
“Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job.”

Source : "Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary".
“A Master who cannot bow to a disciple cannot bow to Buddha.”
“The greatest field of photography, for the literary interpretation of life, consists, to my mind, in its latent power to create, as it were, death for a single second. Any thing or person is, at will, made to die for a moment of time so immeasurably small that the return to life is effected without consciousness of the great adventure. (1928)”
“Change is inevitable. Progress is optional .”
“I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.”

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