"Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends."

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Source : FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Aug 08, 2011

Philip Roth

#Playfulness Quotes #Seriousness Quotes

“Politics is not an exact science.”
“There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.”

Source : Robert Smith Surtees (1860). “"Plain Or Ringlets?"”, p.141
“I can change my mind, but only the Holy Spirit can change my heart. Divine love can only be divinely imparted.”

Source : Jack Deere (1996). “Surprised by the Power of the Spirit: Discovering how God Speaks and Heals Today”, p.201, Harper Collins
“For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else might be possible? Water may be older than light, diamonds crack in hot goat's blood, mountaintops give off cold fire, forests appear in mid-ocean, it may happen that a crab is caught with the shadow of a hand on its back, and that the wind be imprisoned in a bit of knotted string. And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.”

Source : "The Shipping News". Book by Annie Proulx, 1993.
“A magazine is not just one person. And a fashion shoot is the same!”
“Ah, love. A dreadful bond! And yet, so easily severed.”
“The tongue is a powerful tool. And the words we say are never forgotten. Never.”
“And I flirted with the devil and he dealt me a card. He told me that you will never win. So I sold my soul to the devil. I never thought it could be this bad. And I got the devil takin' me away”

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