Quotes
Authors
Robert Musil

"Clothes, when abstracted from the flow of present time and their transmogrifying function on the human body, and seen as forms in themselves, are strange tubes and excrescences worthy of being classed with such facial decorations as the ring through the nose or the lip-stretching disk. But how enchanting they become when seen togetherwith the qualities they bestow on their wearer! What happens then is no less than the infusion, into some tangled lines on a piece of paper, of the meaning of a great word."

-- Robert Musil

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“Yes,â€ I told him. â€œI think the guy playing the Pirate King was awesome.â€ He stopped where he was. â€œWhat?â€ I asked, frowning at the big smile on his face. â€œI didnâ€™t say I liked the Pirate King,â€ he told me. â€œOh.â€ I closed my eyesâ€”and there he was. A warm, edgy presence right on the edge of my perception. When I opened my eyes, he was standing right in front of me. â€œCool,â€ I told him. â€œYouâ€™re back.â€ He kissed me leisurely. When he was finished, I was more than ready to head home. Fast. â€œYou make me laugh,â€ he told me seriously.”
“Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing. Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!”

Source : 'Summer's Last Will and Testament' (1600) Song
“I think my virtue was I never thought "This is impossible.”
“the new mystique is that women can have it all. There's a whole new generation of women today, flogging themselves to compete for success according to the male model - in a work world structured for men with wives to handle the details of life.”
“I've never made movies to reach millions of people.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.”
“There is a general place in your brain, I think, reserved for melancholy of relationships past. It grows and prospers as life progresses, forcing you finally, against your better judgment, to listen to country music.”

Source : Kary Mullis (2010). “Dancing Naked in the Mind Field”, p.13, Vintage
“Ive always felt robbed of something by people not knowing I was a Jew.”

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