"No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that has ended simply as something that didn't work out."

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Source : Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

Merle Shain

#Divorce Quotes #Work Out Quotes #Persons Quotes

“How can we be trusted with big things if we're not trustworthy with things that are small? Don't allow your finer instincts to become a casualty of the little everyday crimes of ethical compromise.”
“Take a quick dip, relax with a schnapps and a sandwich, stretch out, have a smoke, take a nap or just rest, and then sit around and chat until three. Then I hunt some more until sundown, bathe again, put on white tie and tails to keep up appearances, eat a huge dinner, smoke a cigar and sleep like a log until the sun comes up again to redden the eastern sky. This is livingâ€¦. Could it be more perfect?”
“I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.”
“No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance.”
“A woman ... all beautiful and accomplished will, while her hand and heart are undisposed of, turn the heads and set the circle in which she moves on fire. Let her marry, and what is the consequence? The madness ceases and all is quiet again. Why? Not because there is any diminution in the charms of the lady, but because there is an end of hope.”
“Any kind of person can be a scientist.”
“When I was perceived as a black man I became a threat to public safety. When I was dressed as myself, it was my safety that was threatened.”
“I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.”

Source : The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. December 2004.

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