"People could not get enough of what they had lost, even if they no longer wanted it."

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Source : Meg Wolitzer (2013). “The Interestings: A Novel”, p.246, Penguin

Meg Wolitzer

#People Quotes #Enough Quotes #Lost Quotes

“I'm not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don't walk away from it when something unfolds.”
“The hopelessness of the Turkish Government should make me witness with delight its being swept out of the countries which it tortures. Next to the Ottoman Government nothing can be more deplorable and blameworthy than jealousies between Greek and Slav and plans by the States already existing for appropriating other territory. Why not Macedonia for the Macedonians as well as Bulgaria for the Bulgarians and Serbia for the Serbians?”
“The striking thing about America is - it's historically, extraordinary unusual,I don't of any other instance - is that productivity of workers and wages have not moved in tandem.”
“Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.”
“I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use.”
“In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand - or at least to learn to understand - the beauty of stone.”

Source : Lafcadio Hearn (2015). “Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan”, p.4, Booklassic
“The President must be true to his word. He must keep his faith with the folks who elected him twice. In other words, he must replace Sandra Day O'Connor with a strict constructionist. The president has a God-given opportunity to change the balance on the Supreme Court. On issue after issueâ€”abortion, sodomy, public display of the Ten Commandmentsâ€”O'Connor has sided with the court's liberal bloc. Time and again, Justice O'Connor and her colleagues have used the Constitution as an excuse to force weird social experiments on the nation.”
“Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.”

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