"I have always found the female of the human species many times more difficult to understand than the male."

-- Osamu Dazai

#Women Quotes #Female Quotes #Males Quotes

“There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.”
“We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.”
“I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.”
“There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.”

Source : "The Book of This and That". Book by Robert Staughton Lynd, 1915.
“Seven shots ring out like the ocean's pounding roar, there's seven people dead on a South Dakota farm.”
“The cross is the standing statement of what we do to one another and to ourselves. The resurrection is the standing statement of what God does to us in return.”
“At some point in time it will be right for me to step aside. That may be after this year, but that may be after two or three more years.”
“People think it's suspect and self-indulgent to make art, and I don't think that's true. Some people think you should be busy making something that you can sell in the marketplace, and if nobody wants to buy it, it must be crap. And that's not true.”

Source : "Dana Spiotta on living the creative life". Interview with Jacket Copy, latimesblogs.latimes.com. August 3, 2011.

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