"I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose."

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Virginia Woolf

#Glowing Quotes #Romance Quotes #Together Quotes

“So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.”
“Some said he shouldn't save Detroit. But President Obama made the tough and right call to save more than a million American jobs in an important, iconic industry.”
“I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year; I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline.”
“Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for a story, there is a certain - not falsification, but a shifting.”
“In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.”

Source : Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.305, Random House
“My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity.”

Source : "Hayden Carruth, Poet and Critic, Dies at 87" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. September 30, 2008.
“Good therapy, gently but firmly, moves people out of denial and compartmentalization. It helps clients to develop richer inner lives and greater self-knowledge. It teaches clients to live harmoniously with others and it enhances Existential consciousness, and allows people to take responsibility for their effects on the world at large. For me , happiness is about appreciating what one has. Practically speaking,this means lowering expectations about what is fair, possible and likely. It means,finding pleasure in the ordinary.”

Source : Mary Pipher (2009). “Letters to a Young Therapist: Stories of Hope and Healing”, p.16, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Presidents often disappoint, but first ladies rarely do.”

Source : "Goosey Lucy and Gay Marriage" by Kitty Kelley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2013.

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