"Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived."

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Zadie Smith

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“I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.”

Source : "Oren Peli: 'I'm not a nerd or a luddite, I'm a geek really'". Interview With Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2010.
“Sometimes we can't help the way we feel, but we can mostly choose how we respond to it.”
“Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.”
“Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)”
“At what point does a fly give up trying to escape through a closed windowâ€“do its survival instincts keep it going until it is physicaly capable of no more,or does it eventualy learn after one crash too many that there is no way out? At what point do you decide that enough is enough?”

Source : "Forbidden". Book by Tabitha Suzuma, 2010.
“Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.”
“If you're positive and listen to your heart, you can truly get what you're looking for. It's hard to do all the time, but vibrating on the right frequency can really bring some wonderful things into your life.”

Source : "Interview with Actress Jacqui Holland on Beauty, Aging, and Embracing Pain". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“The most powerful life is the most simple life. The most powerful life is the life that knows where it's going, that knows where the source of strength is; it is the life that stays free of clutter and happenstance and hurriedness.”

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