"How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened."

-- Thomas Jefferson

#Pain Quotes #Fear Quotes #Self Esteem Quotes

“She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose, trembling mouth... People talking were meant to look at a face, the disastrous cupcake of it, the hide-and-seek of the heart dashing across. With a phone, you said words, but you never watched them go in. You saw them off at the airport but never knew whether there was anyone there to greet them when they got off the plane.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Jan 21, 2012
“What is it to be rich? It is to have an assured income in excess of expenditures, and to have no occasion for anxiety for the morrow. It is to be above the necessity of living from hand to mouth. It is to be able (or to have grounds to insanely suppose one's self to be able) to live outside of God's providence.”

Source : William Batchelder Greene (1873). “A Letter to the Rev. Henry W. Foote, Minister of King's Chapel, in Vindication of the Poorer Class of the Boston Working-women”, p.6
“... shortly before she died Janis Joplin gave me the Gibson Hummingbird she recorded "Me and Bobbby McGee" on ... Janis was a good guitar player, for her purposes .. she just wanted to play along with her songs, and she had a real pure and nice style for that ...”
“This was an unpleasant trend. I didnâ€™t want a lot of guys popping in and out of my bedroom. I wanted one who would stay.”
“If your like me, you like to wait till your parents are having sex and walk in on them and act like its an accident, and then ask if you can join in.”
“The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.”
“Growing up means :propelling yourself forward into whatever lies ahead, one turn of the wheel at a time.”
“my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of which is the story I tell the reader, and the other the buried story I know and let slip now and then into a clue to whet the reader's interest.”

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