"I had to admit that in his old-fashioned way O'Hara was still romantic about sex; like Scott Fitzgerald, he thought of it as an upper-class prerogative."

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Source : Alfred Kazin (1982). “Contemporaries, from the 19th century to the present”, Horizon Pr

Alfred Kazin

#Art Quotes #Sex Quotes #Class Quotes

“Monstrous behavior is the order of the day. I'll tell you when to be shocked. When something human and decent happens!”

Source : Lucille Kallen (1981). “Introducing C.B. Greenfield”
“Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth.”
“Justin Bieber looks like a lesbian. Hot as sh*t!”
“Hell is the opposite of joy. It is unfulfillment. It is knowing Who and What You Are, and failing to experience that. It is being less.”
“Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.”
“The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.”

Source : Laura Ingalls Wilder, Yvonne Pope (2006). “Laura Ingalls Wilder's Prairie Wisdom”, p.11, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.”
“But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.”

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