"Fantasy is like jam. . . . You have to spread it on a solid piece of bread. If not, it remains a shapeless thing . . . out of which you canâ€™t make anything."

-- Italo Calvino

#Jam Quotes #Pieces Quotes #Bread Quotes

“I wanna better understand the world I live in, and I wanna be able to learn how to be more effective. I wanna learn and I wanna listen.”
“"She can't do Subtraction." said the White Queen. "Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife-what's the answer to that?" "I suppose-" Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for her. "Bread-and-butter, of course."”
“It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'”
“When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.”
“The leftist is anti-individualistic... He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his own ability to solve his own problems and satisfy his own needs.”
“Don't count on the power of your love or your nagging to create something that wasn't there to begin with.”

Source : FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Nov 16, 2016
“Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.”
“Infidelity, cheating is the easiest, stupidest, dumbest thing you can do.”

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