"When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows what it means, so now I use it all the time."

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Source : Francine Pascal (2014). “My First Love and Other Disasters: My First Love and Other Disasters; Love & Betrayal & Hold the Mayo; My Mother Was Never a Kid”, p.651, Simon and Schuster

Francine Pascal

#Mean Quotes #Use Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.”
“For a moment, off balance, was I annoyed? Anger is always fear, I thought, and fear is always fear of loss. Would I lose myself if he made those choices? It took a second to settle down: I'd lose nothing. They'd be his wishes, not mine, and he's free to live as he wants. The loss would come if I dared force him, tried to live for him and me as well. There'd be disaster worse than life on a bar stool.”
“I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.”
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”

Source : "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.
“This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”
“Yale's endowment became a metaphor for the kind of training it offered its graduates, namely, how to exploit the global marketplace, and technology, for your own interests, while maintaining a smokescreen of virtuous intent.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Because you aren't just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can't imagine giving that up again." He hesitated searching for the right words. "You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.”
“The United States is at a critical juncture in time. Our government is riddled with historic debt, and the limited resources of philanthropic and non-profit efforts cannot meet the scale of social challenges we face with necessary force.”

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