"It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?"

-- May Sarton

#Were Meant To Be Quotes #Looks Quotes #Knack Quotes

“First of all, I would like to clear the air on one thing. Alison has slept with more men than Amanda; Sydney has slept with more men than Amanda; I think Matt has slept with more men than Amanda.”
“God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways.”

Source : John Masefield (1923). “The Collected Poems”
“Dreams, though, are just one kind of inspiration - no more or less special than something in a newspaper article or from the world around you sparking inspiration.”

Source : Source: www.buzzfeed.com
“I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture.”
“Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life be without it?”
“Everything kills you, you're dying everyday. You're either dying everyday or you're living every day and I'm living everyday.”
“'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.”
“[...] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth. Slavery was an issue, but the primary force for war was a clash between the economic interests of the North and the South. Even the issue of slavery itself was based on economics.”

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