"Most of the problem I see amongst friends and I've experienced amongst myself is when people haven't accommodated the inequality that they want, they haven't understood that their partner wants to give more love and receive less or they haven't understood that their partner wants to receive more, but sort of give less."

-- Stephen Fry

#Giving Quotes #People Quotes #Want Quotes

“Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.”

Source : Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.54, New York Review of Books
“History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.”
“Truth - there's no such thing.”
“I think the style Plimpton popularized - the dive-in, try-it-yourself journalism - is appealing and useful for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the value of an outsider's view into a little-known or misunderstood subculture. I tried to do the same thing with my book - tap into a pocket of American life that few people have any idea about, and tell the real, unvarnished truth about it in a way that was open-minded and authentic.”
“When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.”

Source : "A door to freedom" by Chris Ofili, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2009.
“Philosophy is about getting the facts right, but it is also about thinking rightly about them. Philosophy is more about the latter than the former.”
“So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment.”
“I don't have one specific tattooing specialty. I enjoy doing full-color new school, portraits, neo-traditional, realistic, black and gray, ultra detailed art, etc... but always custom.”

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