"When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion."

-- Laurence Sterne

#Names Quotes #Broken Quotes #Joy Quotes

“Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there.”
“Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.”
“One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is the sea change his victory marks in the battle for the mind-set of the American foreign policy establishment.”
“The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.”

Source : "The Greatest Thing in the World: Experience the Enduring Power of Love".
“More and more students are playing it safe and not taking any risks. You might not succeed, but that's just part of the game.”
“When I was at the University of California at Berkeley, I went to some classes that must have had more than four hundred students in them. I almost always sat in the far back of the auditorium so I could read the newspaper. I remember that I stayed late one day to ask the professor a question, and when I got up to him, all I could think to myself was, 'So this is what the professor looks like.”
“I'll burn myself, or I'll cut myself. For a burn or a cut might be shown, might be nursed, might scar or heal, would be a miserable kind of emblem; would anyway be there, on the surface of her body, rather than corroding it from within. Now the thought came to her again, that she might scar herself in some way. It came, like the solution to a problem: I won't be doing it like some hysterical girl. I won't be hoping she'll come catch me at it. It won't be like lying on the sitting-room floor. I'll be doing it for myself, as a secret.”

Source : Sarah Waters (2011). “The Night Watch”, p.114, Hachette UK
“So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red.”

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