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Mindy Kaling

"Iâ€™m not complaining about Romance Being Dead - Iâ€™ve just described a happy marriage as based on talking about plants and a canceled Ray Romano show and drinking milkshakes: not exactly rose petals and gazing into each otherâ€™s eyes at the top of the Empire State Building or whatever. Iâ€™m pretty sure my parents have gazed into each otherâ€™s eyes maybe once, and that was so my mom could put eyedrops in my dadâ€™s eyes."

Mindy Kaling

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“I would say what makes me vulnerable is when I allow my mind to spiral. You know? When I start not being in the present moment and I start skipping ahead and picturing my daughter driving on the freeway on a late saturday night.”
“We live technologically, with man as the master of nature, man as the engineer, and let anyone who raises his voice against it stop using bridges not built by nature.... No electric light bulbs, no engines, no atomic energy, no calculating machines, no anaesthetics-back to the jungle.”
“No matter what the situation, winning takes care of a lot of stuff. Things are never perfect, even when you win. But it does make for a lot better environment, for sure.”
“It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
“A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one's real self secret, the possibility of something lasting forever: love, hate, grief.”
“Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.”
“There is never a rational reason for a man to rejoice that a certain pretty girl exists and that he has found her. The experience, however, is universal.”

Source : "Time Tunnel". Book by Murray Leinster, ch. 2, p. 19, 1964.
“I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.”

Source : Philip Levine (2002). “So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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