"The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others."

-- Alain de Botton

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“A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.”

Source : "Fictional character: Vito Corleone". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. 1972.
“The truth is I suppose that a tour lays in a great stock of thought and spirits for the future; the fatigue and drawbacks of actual travelling are forgotten and a bright residuum remains.”
“I had to nurture those doubts as if they were tiny, sickly kittens, until eventually they became sturdy, healthy grievances, with their own cat doors, which allowed them to wander in and out of our conversation at will.”
“Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.”
“If you are female, and conditions are otherwise apt, you are supposed to decide whether you want to become a mother by thinking carefully about whether you really want to have a child of your very own, what it would be like to be a mother, whether this is something you really want and will be happy with, etc. In general, you are supposed to evaluate whether you should have a child largely on the basis of what you think it will be like for you to have a child.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“As powerful as our legs are, as magnificent as our lungs and arms and muscles are, nothing matters more than the mind.”

Source : Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.160, A&C Black
“Even Lucifer looked impressed. He muttered, "Only Lucinda could pull that off.”
“We don't want any vocalist messing up the music.”

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