"Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's knocked to the ground while trying to board the six o clock Eastern shuttle, and whose schedule doesn't allow for a sexual encounter lasting more than twelve minutes."

-- Barbara Ehrenreich

#Men Quotes #Play Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something that we should not have missed, or they are about to tell us something; this imminence of a revelation that is not produced is, perhaps, 'the aesthetic event'.”
“We reject certain food because it is rotten. Certain food we can see is fresh. But there is this creative space between fresh food and rotten food where most of human culture's most prized delicacies and culinary achievements exist.”

Source : "'Fermentation': When Food Goes Bad But Stays Good". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 13, 2012.
“The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is of course the desire of the master that his slaves shall be laborious; on the other hand it is the determination of the slave to lead as easy a life as he can. The master has the power of punishment on his side; the slave, on his, has invincible inclination, and a thousand expedients learned by long practice... Good natured though imperfect and slovenly obedience on one side, is purchased by good treatment on the other.”
“The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.”
“Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.”

Source : Kingsley Amis (2016). “Collected Poems: 1944-1979”, p.68, New York Review of Books
“When [my father] reached his majority, he was the head of the family. Everybody depended upon him. He went into a very uptight appearance; he would wear Chesterfield coats to work, Homburg hats, really getting into the whole thing. He knew people like Oscar Levant. He loved New York. He wanted to live there.”
“I usually spend the hiatus of 'Dexter' in New York in a way to balance things.”

Source : "‘Dexter’ Star Jennifer Carpenter Discusses Her Most “Frustrating” Season of the Hit Series and Branching Out for Indie ‘Ex-Girlfriends’". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. November 26, 2012.
“Today, Jesus stands ready to hear your cry and to answer prayer for you. He is interested in every detail of your life. He knows you better than you know yourself.”

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