"In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get to the plot, to introduce actual "living" characters - I recalled this was a love story - and to leave the world of ideas behind. Here we were, two people lying in bed, Eunice's worried head propped on my collarbone, and I wanted us to feel something in common. I wanted this complex language, this surge of intellect, to be processed into love. Isn't that how they used to do it a century ago, people reading poetry to one another?"

-- Gary Shteyngart

#Love Quotes #Lying Quotes #Reading Quotes

“May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.”
“May a merciful God preserve me from a Christian Church in which everyone is a saint! I want to be and remain in the church and little flock of the fainthearted, the feeble and the ailing, who feel and recognize the wretchedness of their sins, who sigh and cry to God incessantly for comfort and help, who believe in the forgiveness of sins.”
“I never thought I would get married and have kids. I thought I was going to be a gypsy actor, traveling all over the world playing the great roles. I ended up having a kid very young, and it put things in perspective.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think it's morally wrong to keep someone away from what keeps him happy.”

Source : Metallica: The Playboy Interview (Singles Classic) (50 Years of the Playboy Interview), April, 2001.
“Loving ourselves is the miracle cure we are all looking for.”
“A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.”
“Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.”
“Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.”

Source : 1789 Aphorisms on Art, no.149 (published 1831).

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