"Life seems somehow less shocking, painful, and lonely - and more hopeful, agreeable, and beautiful - when our experiences are confirmed by those of others. Although each of us is unique, there are familiar responses and doubts and joys that let us know we have kin. We are not, after all, too strange to live."

-- Rosalie Maggio

#Family Quotes #Friends Quotes #Beautiful Quotes

“I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.”
“I have lived for over three hundred years. In that time, the ideal of beauty has changed many times. Large breasts, small, thin, curved, tall, short, they have all been the height of beauty at one time or another. But in all that time, ma petite, I have never desired anyone the way I desire you." - Jean-Claude”
“I would categorize my books as literature, and I hope that is how they would be consumed. The books do not rely on the artwork to be understood, but I need my art practice to write them.”

Source : Source: logger.believermag.com
“Whether it's that moment in acting when everything is suspended and you're not yourself, or breaking through the veil of a very long run or swim, or hearing my daughter laugh they are all pathways to what I think God must be.”

Source : More Magazine Interview, December 2010.
“A cold heart is my protection mechanism. I don't really feel anything for anyone.”
“I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.”
“It started out slowly, it's coming on fast. I got a feeling it's gonna last. Timber, I'm falling in love.”
“To generate any appreciable degree of long-term affluence requires scrupulous honesty and the willingness to honor long-term agreements with employers, suppliers, partners, and especially customers. The flimflam artist may generate a few quick bucks through fraud or misrepresentation, but no successful and lasting business enterprise was ever founded on such principles.”

Source : Robert Sheaffer (1988). “Resentment Against Achievement: Understanding the Assault Upon Ability”

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