"My skin is dead good. I think it must be a combination of being in love and Lucozade."

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Source : Sue Townsend (1991). “Adrian Mole, from Minor to Major: The Mole Diaries : the First Ten Years”

Sue Townsend

#Being In Love Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Skins Quotes

“Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.”
“An authentic and ingenious account of the ingeniously counterfeit in art and in life.”
“Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time.”
“I don't think she [Marilyn Monroe] saw herself as victimized and a sex object. She knew how to contend with it. I'm sure she was no fool about it. On the one hand, it was very flattering and great; on the other hand, it was probably awful and could be very lascivious and very terrible. But I think a lot of women just wanted to be like her. And that's still true today.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“The funny thing is just the collision of genres, taking one medium and trying to ram it into another medium, whether it fits or not.”

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“I think during the day, when I was doing the Masterchef experience, everything I'd learnt in yoga, the breathing techniques, etc, would really help and it would calm me down because it was so stressful.”

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“Katie had a fierce desire for survival which made her a fighter. Johnny had a hankering after immortality which made him a useless dreamer. And that was the great difference between these two who loved each other so well.”

Source : Emmet Fox (1946). “Make your life worth while”, Harper San Francisco
“For the patient who remained hospitalized a long time, an insidious metamorphosis took place - the outside world dimmed and faded like a watercolor exposed to the sun, while the hospital became the center and the only real part of the universe.”

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