"In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way."

-- Iris Murdoch

#Marriage Quotes #Selfish Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Rudolf Valentino looks very much alive and he looks up ladies dresses as they sadly pass him by.”
“Who knows what the hell a government is or what the hell a government does.”
“She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after winter. Peter Lake was at her side and it ruined him forever. It broke him as he had not ever imagined he could have been broken. He would never again be young, or able to remember what it was like to be young. What he had once taken to be pleasures would appear to him in his defeat as hideous and deserved punishments for reckless vanity.”
“hy is it you can impose a new tax and keep your economy growing? Only if you cut other taxes by exactly the same amount. The problem with carbon taxes around the world has been you dump a new tax onto the economy and it's just adding more tax.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.”

Source : Review of The Changeling, by Thomas Middleton (1961). "Tynan Right and Left: Plays, Films, People, Places and Events". Book by Kenneth Tynan, p. 75, 1967.
“My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.”
“Boots in January are always a good look, and some of the cutest ones I've seen lately were designed by Ivanka Trump, who knows a thing or two about style.”
“We haven't really changed, we've just gotten better at executing what we've always been trying to do. We're not really a band that has undergone huge stylistic decisions to change, we're just trying to follow the song. More and more, we let the song lead us - we don't try and put the song into a structure of our taste or our fashion.”

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