"Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all."

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Source : Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

Jean Genet

#Betrayal Quotes #Ecstasy Quotes

“A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.”
“Three men, together riding, Can win new worlds at their will; Resolute, neer dividing, Lead, and be victors still. Three can laugh and doom a king, Three can make the planets sing.”
“I should mention that I took piano lessons beginning when I was four. My mother was my first teacher, and it was a wonderful way to bond with her. She was a terrific supporter of my musical career. I knew I wanted to be in music since I began lessons, and I enjoy the various facets that my career has led me.”

Source : Source: www.barbaraharbach.com
“A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts that she is mentally competent to make reasonably, as has a married man, or any other man.”
“The Left/Right scale is a misleading way of comparing political systems. It doesn't measure anything.”
“Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also.”
“Fairy tales have a hidden power, and their appeal never ends. They're the best way to get messages across.”
“But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on the slopes of my silence and then, boom, it's 1980. Once I erupt, they'll be wiping my verbal ashes off their windshields as far away as North Dakota.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from May 18, 2015

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