"If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police."

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

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“I can sit in front of the TV and watch an old romantic film and be transfixed.”
“Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.”

Source : Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.276, Simon and Schuster
“Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.”
“The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath.”
“Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.”
“I work even when I am on vacation. You know that line by Stéphane Mallarmé, "All earthly existence must ultimately be contained in a book"? I am the kind of person who finds life interesting only if it is translated into writing, if it is parsed into words.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Time doesn't heal wounds; it only watches them take different shapes and forms until they look so different that where they came from is often obscured. The real capacity to heal inner wounds comes from heaven, not earth. Only the power of Jesus can go to the deep places and bring healing.”

Source : Robert Whitlow (2017). “A Robert Whitlow Collection: The Trial, The Sacrifice, The List”, p.417, Thomas Nelson
“It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute.”

Source : Raymond Williams (2013). “Loyalties”, p.331, Random House

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