"Nothing ever turns me on so much in a woman as unhappiness."

-- Jerry Stahl

#Unhappiness Quotes #Turn Me Quotes #Turns Quotes

“But nothing has replaced the writer. He or she is still stuck with the same old job of saying something that other people will want to read.”
“You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want to add to that.”
“The Election Assistance Commission represents a major, unprecedented commitment from the federal government to sustained freedom and vibrant democracy. I am humbled by the prospect of being one its charter members.”
“Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.”
“I think that all human systems require continuous renewal. They rigidify. They get stuff in the joints. They forget what they cared about. The forces against it are nostalgia and the enormous appeal of having things the way they always have been, appeals to a supposedly happy past. But we've got to move on.”
“No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.”

Source : Herman Melville (2016). “Redburn.His First Voyage”, p.222, Herman Melville
“Be confident and not cocky.”
“The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.”

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