"Weddings are giant Rorschach tests onto which everyone around you projects their fears, fantasies, and expectations - many of which they've been cultivating since the day you were born."

-- Susan Jane Gilman

#Wedding Quotes #Expectations Quotes #Tests Quotes

“The secret of success isâ€¦ to be fully awake to everything about you.”
“Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.”

Source : "Camera Lucida". Book by Roland Barthes, www.theguardian.com. 1980.
“No matter how developed you are in any other area of your life, no matter what you say you believe, no matter how sophisticated or enlightened you think you are, how you eat tells all.”
“What my mom failed to understand was that I didn't even want long hair -- I needed long hair. And my desire for protracted, flowing locks had virtually nothing to do with fashion, nor was it a form of protest against the constructions of mainstream society. My motivation was far more philosophical. I wanted to rock.”
“When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.”
“Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality.”
“I still got my hair, I'm not fat.”
“A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.”

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