"Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth."

-- E. M. Forster

#Past Quotes #Clouds Quotes #Students Quotes

“I can't see any point to hanging around a Burger King all day, no matter how much money you make. .... I'll tell you why. Your life would depend on the random desires of people who wanted a hamburger. So you can just forget about Burger King.”

Source : Charles Willeford (2009). “Miami Blues”, p.105, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
“We've turned off all the lights in the living room to make hand shadows. We've got this big flashlight aimed at the wall. I make the silhouette of my hand into a duck. Robin makes his into a rabbit. Now my duck kisses his rabbit And-POOF!- it turns into a turkey. And for some reason this strikes us as hysterically funny. But you probably had to be there.”

Source : Sonya Sones (2013). “What My Mother Doesn't Know”, p.240, Simon and Schuster
“Valentine's Day's not for men.”
“Happiness, that's obviously different for everybody, but what I call my joy, the thing that makes me feel incredibly satiated, is my family, and then I get to go and play out all of my ideas and feelings through all these different characters.”
“My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.”
“Love is what makes sex more than masturbation. If there is no love even if you are really with a partner you ***** with a partner.”

Source : HARDtalk Interview, BBC World Service, January 12, 2010.
“By deafening ourselves to the emotional consequences of violence we have become confused by its relationship to sex. We have come to believe that violence equals aggression, and we have come to base our model of sexuality on our model of violence... converting an act of aggression into an act of consensual sexuality.”
“To sit on the front steps â€” whether it's a veranda in a small town or a concrete stoop in a big city â€” and to talk to our neighborhoods is infinitely more important than to huddle on the living-room lounger and watch a make-believe world in not-quite living color.”

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