"renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand."

-- Ambrose Bierce

#Hands Quotes #Degrees Quotes #Littles Quotes

“The moment you start dividing thought and feeling, the ratio of sinitive from the intuitive, you're dead. There is no difference between emotion and thought. You can be unreasonable.”
“What turned me on then, and turns me on even today - and when the time comes from me to retire from management I think I'd still be interested in it - is that everything that happens in the world affects the price of securities.”
“One of the unique things is that whether we were out at sea or in the middle of the water tank, a lot of times you just couldn't leave. Especially when we were out at sea.”
“Vadalism: beautiful as a rock in a cop's face.”
“Childhood was a fantastic country to live in.”

Source : Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.81, Scholastic UK
“Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.”

Source : Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.25, Open Road Media
“This is what marriage is all about - Man and woman walking together, wherein the husband helps his wife to become ever more a woman, and wherein the woman has the task of helping her husband to become ever more a man.”
“Her touch was as knowing and confident as her eyes, and as she focused all her attention upon me, I remembered that there is nothing so thrilling as a woman of words when she decides that the time for words is past.”

Source : Greg Iles (2004). “The Footprints of God”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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