"The only men who can turn my blood stream into a condition resembling heavy surf are good-looking heels with characters as intricately unpleasant as the sewers of Paris. With decent and honorable gents, I come all over Platonic. Was ever a woman so perverse and wrongheaded?"

-- Margaret Halsey

#Character Quotes #Men Quotes #Blood Quotes

“When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.”
“I think the obligation of a poet is not to be in an ivory tower; it is not to be isolated but to be among people.”
“If, since the start, I'd played well and put in some good matches it would all have been too simple.”
“This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.”

Source : Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.41, Open Road Media
“When you come to New York you always get a buzz.”
“For us it's always about making sure that there's substance, that things are well thought out, they're real, they're going to happen versus just haphazardly making Hollywood type announcements. So that's where we are there [on Comic-Con], just making sure that when we do something to say that it's something.”
“Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
“I'll bring in outsiders to evaluate state agencies. They can sometimes see what we can't.”

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