"I'm just interested in women's friendships generally. It always seems to me, and this is just my pet theory, that women are kind of at the sharp end of capitalism one way or another. Mainly because they buy everything. In a practical sense, women buy most things. They're always comparing - to friends, to famous people, to other people. An obsessive act of comparison."

-- Zadie Smith

#People Quotes #Pet Quotes #Way Quotes

“Silence too can be indiscreet.”

Source : Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.94, New Victoria Publishers
“In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard.”
“Remember this well. There are two kind of fights. As long as we place ourselves in battle, we must always know the difference: fights to defend lifeâ€¦ and fights to defend prideâ€¦”

Source : "Bleach". Manga series by Tite Kubo, August 20, 2001 – August 22, 2016.
“But to everything in this world there comes an end; there even comes an end to the torments suffered in those intermediate states of transition when the last secret tear of one's soul is bitterly swallowed, and the crisis passes, resolving itself into some new sort of phase, which even as it comes into existence is fated in turn to pass away, to disappear in the eternal changing of the times and seasons.”

Source : Nikolai Bukharin (2005). “How It All Began: The Prison Novel”, p.110, Columbia University Press
“Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you.”
“With each passing year the difficulty of meeting any fixed quantitative target increases progressively. Moreover, plausible estimates of when the Protocol would go into effect leave such a small window of time before the first commitment period that achievement of the Kyoto targets will eventually pass out of reach.”
“I’m not a poet—I’m a drifter in the arts.”
“You try and remember, but it never works.”

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