"What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance."

-- E. V. Lucas

#Cooking Quotes #Shadow Quotes #Literature Quotes

“No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.”

Source : Eric Berne (2011). “Sex in Human Loving”, Tantor eBooks
“Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.”

Source : William H. Gass (2014). “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country: And Other Stories”, p.143, New York Review of Books
“The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.”
“It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living...To live is to find out for yourself what is true...”
“Risk is the most intense road.”
“Anger begins as an inner twinge. We sense something long before it blossoms (explodes?) into an emotional tirade. If we listen to this twinge -- and follow its advice -- the emotional outburst (or in burst) is not needed.”
“I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right.”
“Any relationship should have love, and if there is no love, it is better to call off a relationship. People say that love happens only once, but I don't believe in it because for me, if one relationship doesn't work, you should move on and seek love in another relationship. Who knows; you might find love in the second relationship.”

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