"If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter."

-- Thomas Fuller

#Daughter Quotes #Honesty Quotes #Father Quotes

“Things happen, people change,' is what Amanda said. For her that covered it. You wanted an explanation, and ending that would assign blame and dish up justice. You considered violence and you considered reconciliation . But what you are left with is a premonition of the way your life will fade behind you, like a book you have read too quickly, leaving a dwindling trail of images and emotions, until all you can remember is a name.”

Source : Jay McInerney (2011). “Bright Lights, Big City”, p.127, Vintage
“The mostimportant victory is the one which has to arrive.”
“Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of state; from the other side, the equations of motion in a central field. Ever higher soars the chaos of formulae. Suddenly we hear, as from kettle drums, the four beats 'put n=5.' The evil spirit v vanishes; and ... that which had seemed insuperable has been overcome as if by a stroke of magic ... One result after another follows in quick succession till at last ... we arrive at the conditions for thermal equilibrium together with expressions for the transport coefficients.”
“If a baby is born in Gaza and is not registered with the Israeli Ministry of the Interior, that baby does not exist, it does not count. I get very annoyed when my Palestinian friends complain, 'Why didn't they give me a permit, I am not a terrorist,' because it is not about the person, it is about a policy that people can't articulate because there is no discourse to explain the political intention behind it.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I kept telling myself that all the women in the world werenÂ´t whores, just mine.”
“When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.”
“The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.”
“Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor. It's been far too long.”

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