"Often, we melt into our ecstasies as though they were jams, as though we were sinking into syrupy bowls of gooseberries, of raspberries, of bilberries."

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Source : Violette Leduc (1966). “The Woman with the Little Fox: Three Novellas”

Violette Leduc

#Raspberries Quotes #Jam Quotes #Sinking Quotes

“The Land of Israel needs a People and the People of Israel needs a Land.”
“The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky and all that stuff and not about the important things, like the fact that he wouldn't ban landmines...I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirize George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them. And that's not funny....OK, well, if I say that, I might get a shock laugh, but it's not really satire.”
“A normal person is someone that you don't know very well.”
“Take heed of a speedy professing friend; love is never lasting which flames before it burns.”
“Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth. None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.”
“Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.”
“The problem that faces our country today, the last 30 years we have lived off the future, and the bill is coming due. So there cannot be anything that is not put on the table. There will not be one American that will not be called to sacrifice. Those that are more well-to-do will be called to sacrifice to a greater extent.”

Source : "Sen. Coburn Talks Debt and Taxes; Cardinal Donald Wuerl on Religion and Politics". Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 26, 2010.
“I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.”

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