"I was willing to pay any price including subservience to secure this love, hoping that with each piece of myself I gave up he would be so pleased that he, too, would be transformed."

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Source : Susan Strasberg (1981). “Bitter Sweet”

Susan Strasberg

#Pieces Quotes #Pay Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“Indeed, the maligned American pastime of baseball may be by-far the greatest and best sport by one criterion, when it comes to emulating and training for genuinely useful Neolithic skills! Think about it. The game consists of lots of patient waiting and watching (stalking), throwing with incredible accuracy and speed, sprinting, dodging... and hitting moving objects real hard with clubs! And arguing. Hey, what else could you possibly need? Now, tell me, how do soccer or basketball prepare you to survive in the wild, hm?”
“I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.”
“Kids listen to everything on the Internet.”
“We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside.”

Source : Anchee Min (2006). “Empress Orchid”, p.224, Bloomsbury Publishing
“A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.”
“It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings in the darkness which religions have explored. This is a particular priority for secular Americans, perhaps the most anxious and disappointed people on earth, for their nation infuses them with the most extreme hopes about what they may be able to achieve in their working lives and relationships.”
“Is it possible that the creative act is simply the materialization of the future- making the invisible, visible?”
“Don't call me darling. I'm a driving instructor!”

Source : Hilary McKay (2002). “Saffy's Angel”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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