"It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun."

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Source : Margaret Culkin Banning (1936). “Letters to Susan”

Margaret Culkin Banning

#Fun Quotes #Trying Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“men have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior.”
“I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.”
“The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true of chocolate and marriages and hometowns and narrative structures. Complexities wane, miracles become unremarkable, and if we're not careful, pretty soon we're gazing out at our lives as if through a burlap sack.”

Source : Anthony Doerr (2008). “Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World”, p.54, Simon and Schuster
“We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater.”
“A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.”
“Letting go of the need to control things doesnâ€™t mean letting go of responsibility. It means embracing life.”

Source : FaceBook post by Marc David from Mar 11, 2015
“I piss on you all from a considerable height.”
“A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.”

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