"The secret of a happy marriage is simple: Just keep on being as polite to one another as you are to your friends."

-- Robert Quillen

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“He earned his love through discipline, a thundering velvet hand, his gentle means of sculpting souls took me years to understand.”
“I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.”
“Emptiness is the track on which the centered person moves.”
“The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.”
“The impulses of my heart are the voice of Nature, which is never mistaken. The institutions that stand in my way are man-made and are only arbitrary conventions to which I have never given my consent. In trampling these institutions underfoot, I shall have the double pleasure of satisfying my inclinations and of believing myself a hero”
“Sphinxes without secrets.”
“The safest genre is the horror film. But the most unsafe - the most dangerous - is comedy. Because even if your horror film isn't very good, you'll get a few screams and you're okay. With a comedy, if they don't laugh, you're dead.”
“When you send out real love, real love will return to you.”

Source : Florence Scovel Shinn (2015). “The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much Mor”, p.64, Hampton Roads Publishing

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