"Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended."

-- T. S. Eliot

#Men Quotes #Air Quotes #Dust Quotes

“By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility. In fact, the modern Western man enforces Immanuel Kant's nineteenth-century theories: To be beautiful, women have to appear childish and brainless. When a woman looks mature and self-assertive, or allows her hips to expand, she is condemned ugly. Thus, the walls of the European harem separate youthful beauty from ugly maturity.”
“I feel like when the songwriting slows, I'd love to help others with their records. If it's something I really believe in, it's worth the effort.”
“I wanted to give birth as opposed to being delivered!”
“The biggest problem in the fictional treatment of sex is that it's not treated as part of the story but as a pause from the story. The best sex scenes in fiction are the ones that advance the story.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.”

Source : "Jaw-jaw is better than war-war" by Richard Norton-Taylor, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2015.
“The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.”
“I hate how people say I'm growing up fast.”
“Right then, I wanted to go back in time and relive every moment with him. One more secret smile, one more shared laugh. One more electric kiss. Finding him was like finding someone I didn't know I was searching for. Heâ€™d come into my life too late, and now was leaving too soon. I remembered him telling heâ€™d give up everything for me. He already had.”

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