"most crimes are connected to hunger. One hunger or another."

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Source : Marlena de Blasi (2008). “That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story”, p.66, Ballantine Books

Marlena De Blasi

#Hunger Quotes #Crime Quotes #Connected Quotes

“The failed stimulus, along with Obamacare's long list of failures, show what happens when Congress passes laws in a rush.”
“When it's time to get dressed, put on your clothes. When you must walk, then walk. When you must sit, then sit. Just be your ordinary self in ordinary life, unconcerned in seeking for Buddhahood. When you're tired, lie down. The fool will laugh at you but the wise man will understand.”
“Busyness is now the social norm that people feel they must conform to, Burnett says, or risk being outcasts.”
“You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy.”
“Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood, could suppose it is time of joys.”
“All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.”
“Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person.”
“To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day.”

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