"Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership."

-- E. M. Forster

#Desire Quotes #Earth Quotes #Materialism Quotes

“I've never been one of those who is attracted to straight men. Like I always said, 'you're straight, so there's no point' and I have friends who are pursuers of the heterosexual men. They see it as conquests, which I think is a different thing and a more narcissistic thing. And not necessarily a healthy thing.”
“We're all alive. We're all healthy. These are the good times.”

Source : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.226, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.”
“Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.”
“I think that conservatism as we understand it is coming under great strain during the era of Trump.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.”
“Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.”
“I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didn't know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it.”

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