"Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can't touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep."

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Source : Andrew Sean Greer (2008). “The Story of a Marriage”, p.102, Faber & Faber

Andrew Sean Greer

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“For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god may sometimes come to be confounded with the execution of a criminal.”

Source : "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.
“It is true that I visualize music and, as I visualize music, I have some sort of story running in my head, all the time.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“You know, I always do my best, no matter the quality of the film,”

Source : "Herbert Lom, Frustrated Boss of Inspector Clouseau, Dies at 95" by David Belcher, www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2012.
“Professional sports is a business.”
“In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you”
“The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.”
“Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages.”
“I live part-time in a cabin in Colorado up in the mountains and part-time on a ranch in central Texas - but do I really know how to go brand a cow, or do I really know how to go rappelling down a cliff? No. I do the recreational, half-assed version of all these manly activities and then try to keep that kind of Zen masculinity, like, "I'm a man of nature."”

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