"It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it"

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Julie Orringer

#Crumbling Quotes #Done Quotes #Complicated Quotes

“I'll always be there I'd give anything and everything And I will always care Through weekness and strength Happiness and sorrow For better or for worse I will love you With every beat of my heart.”
“More American young people can tell you where an island that the 'Survivor' TV series came from is located than can identify Afghanistan or Iraq. Ironically a TV show seems more real or at least more meaningful interesting or relevant than reality.”
“I like the aesthetics of the Church.”
“Spaying is a compromise in terms of reverence for life, but perhaps a necessary one in a society which kills millions of dogs and cats a year in "animal shelters".”
“I'm an addict for underwear.”
“Share what you do profusely, because it will be remixed by others into something new, rich and strange.”
“The exercises I wholly condemn are dicing and carding, especially if you play for any great sum of money, or spend any time in them, or use to come to meetings in dicing-houses, where cheaters meet and cozen young gentlemen out of all their money.”
“To work and work and never mind why; if you kept looking for the why behind everything you might never work again, you might never bother to breathe again.”

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