"What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better."

-- Doris Lessing

#Love Quotes #Inspirational Quotes #Needs Quotes

“I don't see all the movies that come out.”
“Because here's the thing about a book: when you pick up a story, you put down your own.”

Source : Holly Smale (2015). “All That Glitters (Geek Girl, Book 4)”, p.20, HarperCollins UK
“Somewhere around the turn of the century, it stopped being hip to say you never watched TV. Adults are much more likely to find something to engage them on television than they are at the local multiplex. Edges are being cut on television all the time, but at the movies only now and then.”
“Sex is the divine in its most available epiphany.”

Source : "The World's Religions". Book by Huston Smith, 1991.
“Cats are great. They don't talk about useless things. Or do them. Nothing is cuter. They are something that don't exist in my world. They have pets over there as well...but...it doesn't quite compare.”
“In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.”
“I don`t think I own any US stocks, if I do its very few, so few I can`t even remember.”
“I used to have this dream that somebody was knocking at my door. I'd say 'Who is it?' and they'd answer 'Police.' I'd open the door and they would say to me, 'Pack your bags. We realized you have no talent.”

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