"Nature is woman's best friend,' she [Yasmina] often said. 'If you're having troubles, you just swim in the water, stretch out in a field, or look up at the stars. That's how a woman cures her fears'."

-- Fatema Mernissi

#Stars Quotes #Water Quotes #Swim Quotes

“I have come to the conclusion that it is better to be silent than to speak.”
“... Corellian curses being a synergistic blend of vulgarity, obscenity, and outright blasphemy that were the only things really worth saying when one was in the middle of being blown to monatomic dust.”
“In the strict formulation of the law of causalityâ€”if we know the present, we can calculate the futureâ€”it is not the conclusion that is wrong but the premise. On an implication of the uncertainty principle.”
“I'm not going to take a show unless I'm not sure I can do it. You have to have that sort of adrenaline.”
“There is a fear of voluptuousness that is itself voluptuous, just as a certain fear of death can itself be deadly.”

Source : Joseph Roth (2002). “The Radetzky March”, p.149, The Overlook Press
“The selective instinct of the artist tells him when his language should be homely, and when it should be more elevated; and it is precisely in the imperceptible blending of the plain with the ornate that a great writer is distinguished. He uses the simplest phrases without triviality, and the grandest without a suggestion of grandiloquence.”
“Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.”
“There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.”

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