"Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty."

-- Junichiro Tanizaki

#Shadow Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul.”
“I call it suffering and pain, they call it entertainment.”
“Every virtuous woman desires a husband to whom she can look for guidance and protection through this world. God has placed this desire in woman's nature. It should be respected by the stronger sex. Any man who takes advantage of this, and humbles a daughter of Eve to rob her of her virtue, and cast her off dishonored and defiled, is her destroyer, and is responsible to God for the deed.”
“My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.”

Source : Tracy Letts (2008). “August: Osage County (TCG Edition)”, p.17, Theatre Communications Group
“Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.”
“I'm sure that people who have been tweeting funny things have ended up on writing staffs of a late night show.”
“WIth both trepidation and relief, I abandoned pragmatism in favor of magnetism.”

Source : Tama J. Kieves (2004). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher
“The means prepare the end, and the end is what the means have made of it.”

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