"they say in the old tales that when a man and woman exchange looks the way we did, their spirits mingle. their gaze is a rope of gold binding each other. even if they never meet again, they carry a little of the other with them always. they can never forget, and they can never be wholly happy again"

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Source : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2000). “Sister of My Heart”, Anchor

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#Men Quotes #Gold Quotes #Rope Quotes

“You want to understand the smallest feature set customers will pay for in the first release.”

Source : Brant Cooper, Patrick Vlaskovits (2010). “The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development: A Cheat Sheet to the Four Steps to the Epiphany”, p.39, CustDev
“I could throw 56-pound words clear across the Grand Canyon. As a matter of course, I went into politics.”

Source : "The Silver-Tongued Sunbeam". Time, June 8, 1962.
“I think of my life as a series of moments and I've found that the great moments often don't have too much to them. They're not huge, complicated events; they're just magical wee moments when somebody says 'I love you' or 'You're a really good at what you do' or simply 'You're a good person'.”
“When you cast somebody you cast them not only for... I look for an inherent kind of quality. You are going to be shooting 14 hour days and you are going to be tired. You are going to not necessarily be able to conjure armor or a faÃ§ade every single moment.”
“What, really, is wanted from a neighborhood? Convenience, certainly, an absence of major aggravation, to be sure. But perhaps mostof all, ideally, what is wanted is a comfortable background, a breathing space of intermission between the intensities of private life and the calculations of public life.”

Source : Joseph Epstein (1979). “Familiar territory: observations on American life”, Oxford University Press
“I think quality will be increasingly important-we're moving away from a time of fast fashion. But really, the only constant in fashion is that you must keep moving forward, otherwise you'll be left behind.”
“I believe it's a cook's moral obligation to add more butter given the chance.”
“I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult.”

Source : Harlan Ellison (2014). “Paingod: And Other Delusions”, p.36, Open Road Media

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