"Because that's what unfaithfulness is, isn't it? A cancer that's always there in the back of your mind, eating away at the foundations of the relationship. It's happened once, it could happen again, so you're always looking for telltale signs or symptoms to show that it's reappeared."

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Source : Matt Dunn (2008). “The Ex-Boyfriend's Handbook”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

Matt Dunn

#Cancer Quotes #Mind Quotes #Foundation Quotes

“If you live to be 100 years old, what you've done here for the last two days, weeks, monthswhat you've done here will echo in eternity.”
“I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.”
“Let everyone who makes garden plans frequently insert the letters C.P. in them as a reminder, the same standing for climate permitting.”
“I think the fear of being seen as childish or crazy severely limits our enjoyment of the world around us, thus inducing a state of boredom that in turn gives rise to much of the stupidity and meanness that oftem seem to epitomize the human condtion. In fact, these ills merely signify that the dues we pay for adult respectability are far too high, and bring some 'benefits' of questionable value.”
“The old priest Peter Gilligan Was weary night and day; For half his flock were in their beds, Or under green sods lay.”
“I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.”
“Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.”
“When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.”

Source : "Bottled Wisdom: Over 1,000 Spirited Quotations & Anecdotes" by Mark Pollman, Wildstone Media, (p. 146), January 1, 1998.

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