"One sits uncomfortably on a too comfortable cushion."

--

Lillian Hellman

#Comfort Quotes

“I suppose he'll just have to do," she amended. "You'll have to suffer in silence with your male model...I feel for you." "Oh, stop it, Molly.”
“Part of being young is you thinking that gaining 6 lbs. Is the end of the world”
“But what if you discover that the price of purpose is to render invisible so many other things?”

Source : Jeff VanderMeer (2014). “Acceptance: A Novel”, p.157, Macmillan
“Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit or moral dishonesty is the oil without which the machinery would not work.”
“I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.”
“The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.”
“I think I've had to work my entire life at reacting to bad news, 'cause my first tendency whenever bad news comes is to pretend like it's not that bad somehow. And, you know, if you can do that with your parents being executed, you can do that with almost anything.”
“Some makeup you put on and feel like youre getting pimples by the hour.”

Source : "Model Behavior / Vendela makes room in her life for charity, upcoming marriage and a 'Batman' movie" by Trish Donnally, www.sfgate.com. June 6, 1996.

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