"I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the minor deity Psyche. It was the Greek way of saying that, in spite of what it may believe, Love pursues the Soul, not the body; the Erotic desires the Psychic. If Love was clean and wholesome he wouldn't lust after Psyche."

-- Stephen Fry

#Believe Quotes #Dirty Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing ...”
“The most exciting thing either of us does is nap.”
“Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.”
“I was the most subtle person in the world.”
“I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when itâ€™s at its extreme. And thatâ€™s what they end up knowing about it.”
“No matter how dark you are, no matter what you think your heritage is or how inevitable your fall is, you can always make a choice in the next second to be different..”
“I think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous complexity that the very mass of facts presented to the public by press and radio make it exceedingly difficult for the man in the street to reach a clear appraisement of the situation. It is virtually impossible at this distance to grasp at all the real significance of the situation.”
“Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.524, Macmillan

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