"Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive."

-- Amy Hempel

#Heart Quotes #People Quotes #Alive Quotes

“I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past.”
“The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.”
“A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.”
“The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is acceptable to one partner will be acceptable to the other.”
“If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too.”
“There's a lot of situations where I feel irony involved when R&B and hip-hop is expressed in the indie worlds. There's a lot of times when I feel like the juxtaposition becomes a thing.”
“When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.”

Source : Mark Van Doren (1968). “Autobiography”
“Women to whom one has just been introduced think that it breaks the ice if they scream, 'Goodness, you're tall!' How would they like it if I broke the ice first, by screaming 'Goodness, what thick ankles!' or 'Goodness, what a bust!”

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